Lesson 35: Adjectives and Compound Adjectives
This lesson covers how adjectives attach to nouns to describe them directly: their position after the noun, special adjectives that precede the noun, how to combine two adjectives for emphasis, the intensifier fuʻu, and color words. It then covers how Tongan builds compound adjectives by joining two words, including the loto compounds used for emotional states.
An adjective is a word that describes a noun: what kind, what size, what quality. In earlier lessons, adjectives appeared in the verb slot (ʻokú ne mālohi, he is strong). When an adjective sits next to a noun and describes it directly, it is called an attributive adjective.
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