Colourless green ideas, crystallophagy, verbly adjectives

"Colorless green ideas sleep furiously"

K'spa'mozaka pril'konard ðabjard sirimag ctugzand.

k'-    spa   moz   -ak   -a    | pril   kon  -ard     | ðabj     -ard
ErgPrt be up think thing NomPl | colour lack PrIndPrt | be green PrIndPrt

sirim -ag       | ctugz    -and
sleep 3pPlPrSim | be angry PrSimPrt


"I can eat glass, it does not hurt me"

Iar gorp'putar jasan. Iks car ðusker ian.

ia -r  | gorp put        -ar       | jas   -an |
I  Erg | eat  be able to 1pSgPrInd | glass Abs |

iks | ca   -r  | ðusk -er       | ia -n
not | this Erg | hurt 3pSgPrInd | me Abs


>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. and what about adverbs should they work the
>same way.  This is one area that is causing me the most trouble is a
>concept that is hard for me to grasp. But I like it. So any advice would
>be appreciated
My language works the same way. As you can see in the examples above,
adjectival verbs (such as ðabj "be green") are, well, verbs. To use them in
constructions like "green ideas" (as above), you say "green-being ideas",
using a participle. (Of course, in my language, participles can have case
affixes that alter the sense of the adjective, but that's irrelevant to your
question.)

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