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Mindosiik
June 13, 2018

Nouns becoming Adjectives

Drem yol lok!

There are scenarios where nouns become adjectives in English. For example, 'the computer keyboard'. 'Computer' is a noun, but now it's describing 'keyboard'. In Dovahzul, if a noun becomes an adjective (similar to this scenario), would the word change at all to reflect the fact that it's an adjective, or would it stay the same? I'm under the impression that it would stay the same.

Thanks!

Category: Grammar


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Liis
Administrator
June 14, 2018
I believe it would stay the same, though some nouns have adjectival variants. You can also use "se", "of" as an infix:
"Dok zii", "dog spirit" can be "ziisedok", "spirit-of-dog".

"Do", "of" can also be used but never as an infix:
"Zii do dok", "spirit of dog".