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Adjectives and pronouns

Adjectives closely resemble the noun form, usually showing the same exceptions of nouns. Pronouns, instead, may exhibit different forms in the root form.

Adjectives

Attributive adjectives are always placed before the nouns they specify, while predicative adjectives are always placed after them of after the verb.

çōvā vīru
the young man

vīru çōvā 
the man is young

All adjectives agree in case and number with the noun they specify, being declined with the nominal endings.

Declension of qualifying adjectives

Adjectival declension follow the same rules as the nominal declension, with the same exceptions.

Example: ṡūriw, big, with sōgu, house

	attributive declension
	singular	dual	plural
direct	ṡūriw sōgu	ṡūriwhiw sōguhiw	ṡūrü sōgū
genitive	ṡūriwrɛ sōgurɛ	ṡūriwhiwrɛ sōguhiwrɛ	ṡūrürɛ sōgūrɛ
dative	ṡūriwxjɛ sōguxjɛ	ṡūriwhiwxjɛ sōguhiwxjɛ	ṡūrüxjɛ sōgūxjɛ

In the colloquial speech and in informal texts, attributive adjectives display a set of simpler endings.

	attributive declension
	singular	dual	plural
direct	ṡūriw sōgu	ṡūriwhiw sōguhiw	ṡūrü sōgū
genitive	ṡūriwr sōgurɛ	ṡūriwhiwr sōguhiwrɛ	ṡūrür sōgūrɛ
dative	ṡūriwx sōguxjɛ	ṡūriwhiwx sōguhiwxjɛ	ṡūrüx sōgūxjɛ

In some dialects, this set is even simpler, both losing the distinction between the genitive case and the dative case ending, which merge in the sole ending -r, and losing the distinction between plural and dual forms, which are conveyed by the plural forms alone.

	attributive declension
	singular	dual	plural
direct	ṡūriw sōgu	ṡūrü sōguhiw	ṡūrü sōgū
genitive	ṡūriwr sōgurɛ	ṡūrür sōguhiwrɛ	ṡūrür sōgūrɛ
dative	ṡūriwr sōguxjɛ	ṡūrür sōguhiwxjɛ	ṡūrür sōgūxjɛ

The usage of these simpler sets of endings is generally proscribed in formal speech and in official texts.