The adjectives of Fergiartic decline like nouns, splitting into two patterns. The first declension of adjectives has the endings of the 2nd vocalic declension in the masculine and the neutral gender and the endings of the first in the feminine; e.g. bena, bena, benan (good):
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sg. | nom. | bena | bena | benan | pl. | nom. | benu | bena | bena |
gen. | benasha | benay | benasha | gen. | benun | benun | benun | ||
dat. | beno | bena | beno | dat. | beno | benêbya | beno | ||
acc. | benan | benan | benan | acc. | benan | benan | bena |
The second declension of adjectives has the endings of the consonantic declension in the masculine and the neutral gender and the endings of the i-declension in the feminine; e.g. mêr, mêri, mêre (famous):
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sg. | nom. | mêr | mêri | mêre | pl. | nom. | mêre | mêre | mêra |
gen. | mêra | mêre | mêra | gen. | mêrun | mêrun | mêrun | ||
dat. | mêre | mêre | mêre | dat. | marba | mêriva | marba | ||
acc. | mêran | mêrin | mêre | acc. | mêran | mêrin | mêra |
Comparative:
Comparatives are formed by adding -tra and the endings of the first declension of adjectives to the stem. Two forms have to be distinguished: adjectives who attach -tra directly to the stem (e.g. krasa, skinny: krattra) and augmented adjectives which lose their augment in the comparative forms (e.g. magna, great: mattra). The latter is to be declined as an example:
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sg. | nom. | mattra | mattra | mattran | pl. | nom. | mattru | mattra | mattra |
gen. | mattrasha | mattray | mattrasha | gen. | mattrun | mattrun | mattrun | ||
dat. | mattro | mattra | mattro | dat. | mattro | mettrêbya | mattro | ||
acc. | mattran | mattran | mattran | acc. | mattran | mattran | mattra |
The Superlative is formed with the suffix -îsa and declines like the comparative:
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sg. | nom. | meyîsa | meyîsa | meyîsan | pl. | nom. | meyîsu | meyîsa | meyîsa |
gen. | meyîsasha | meyîsay | meyîsasha | gen. | meyîsun | meyîsun | meyîsun | ||
dat. | meyîso | meysîsa | meyîso | dat. | meyîso | meyisêbya | meyîso | ||
acc. | meyîsan | meyîsan | meyîsan | acc. | meyîsan | meyîsan | meyîsa |
Some adjectives form their comparative with
suppletive stems which complement each others. These are: bena
- mantra - menîsa (good, better, best), megra
- etitra - etîsa (many, more, most), pona
- mintra - minîsa (few, fewer, fewest) and
giassa - pettra - pedîsa (bad, worse,
worst). Some comparative forms have prepositions
as basic forms; e.g.: undra - andiarta - andrîsa
(below, lower, lowest), essi - essitra - essîsa
(after, later. latest).
Adjectives whose stems end in y/v or consonant clusters paraphrase
their comparative forms with maye (more) and giller
(most, very). Examples: ansha (fearful) - maye ansha
- giller ansha; llugna (guilty) - maye llugna
- giller llugna, etc.
II.3. Adverbs:
Here we have to distinguish two groups:
original and derived adverbs. Original adverbs like non
(now), huse (there) or ise (there, here) come from
old cases or combinations of stems and particles or affixes.
Derived adverbs are formed with the suffixes -ter (obviously related
to the comparative suffix -tra) and -ud (which also occurs in
forms like essterud, interud).
Here -ter combines especially with augmented adjectives with the
augment being lost (e.g. magne - matter, pona - poter)
and with adjectives whose stem ends in a consonant or -s(s) (e.g.:
salaina, salty - salainter). In these cases assimilations
can take place; e.g. tovala (greedy) - tovaller,
bellika (hostile) - belitter, kroina (bloody)
- krointer, dess (right) - desser, etc. The
second suffix, -ud- combines with stems ending in y/v or consonant
clusters; e.g. kroiva (blood-red) - kroivud, sauya
(smoky) - sauyud, llugna - llugnud.
The comparative of adverbs is identical to the acc. sg. neutr.; e.g. matter - mattran, salainter - salaintran. The superlative of adverbs is identical to the acc. pl. of neutral adjectives; e.g. matter - meyîsa, salainter - salinîsan.
Adjectives that paraphrase their comparative
forms with maye/giller do the same as adverbs, thus: ansha
- anshud - maye/giller anshud.
Note that the stems of words can be changed as in kroima
- krointer - krointran - krenîsa or
as above in salainter - salinîsan, etc.
The adverb of bena (good) is bentan (comparative: mantran, superlative: manîsan), of megra it's meyiollan (comparative: etitran, superlative: etîsa); pona even has two forms with the same comparative, that is potan (little) and parvan (seldom, small) with the comparative mintran and the superlative minîsa.