Adjective Phrases
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Adjectives in Scottish Gaelic
Adjective Agreement in Scottish Gaelic
| beag | Singular | Plural | ||
| 'small' | Masculine | Feminine | Masculine | Feminine |
| Nominative | beag | bheag | b(h)eaga | b(h)eaga |
| Genitive | bhig | bige | beag(a) | beaga |
| Dative | b(h)eag | bhig | b(h)eag(a) | b(h)eag(a) |
| Vocative | bhig | bheag | beag(a) | beag(a) |
Adjective Ordering in Scottish Gaelic
- The relative ordering between three classes of adjectives such as size, quality and color is size > quality > color.
cù mòr briagha dubh dog big beautiful black 'a big beautiful black dog.' (MacAulay 1992)
Intesifiers
Comparative and superlative adjectives
- Basic
an t-eun glas the bird gray 'a gray bird.' (MacAulay 1992)
- Indefinite comparative
eun nas glaise bird more gray.comp 'a grayer bird.' (MacAulay 1992)
- Definite comparative
an t-eun a 's glaise the bird wh-C cop gray.comp 'the grayer bird.' (MacAulay 1992)
- Superlative (only definite; no indefinite superlative)
an t-eun as glaise the bird cop.rel gray.comp 'the grayest bird.' (MacAulay 1992)
- More examples
Tha an t-eun nas glaise na 'n chat be the bird more gray.comp than 'n cat 'The bird is grayer than the cat.' (MacAulay 1992)
Tha an t-eun cho glas ris a' chat be the bird so gray with the cat 'The bird is as gray as the cat.' (MacAulay 1992)
