Re: adj.

Nik Taylor wrote:

>Mario Bonassin wrote:
> >
> > I have a question about adjectives that one among you may have the
> > answer to.  I was planing on having all adj. be form the verb class.
> > I know that they should conjugate like verbs but should I have an
> > extra affix to show its an adj.
>
>No need to.  There could be a derivative suffix that makes adjectives
>out of other words.
Telek does not distinguish between adjectives and verbs in any
way.  Phrases like "a red car" would be literally translated as "a car
which is red" as a perfect parallel with "a car that crashed".

> > and what about adverbs should they work the same way.
>
>I don't think so, but I'm not sure how it's dealt with.
It is possible to have no distinct adverbs at all.  For example, instead of
"quickly", you could have a phrase meaning "it [the action] was quick".  So
a sentence would be something like "I ran and it [the running] was
quick".  Or you could do something like "I ran being quick", much like
English "I went walking to the store".


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