The meaning of the adjectival is perhaps not quite certain.
The adjectival pawt- or pauat- seems to be derived from a root meaning 'to make a loud noise.
As in other Tibeto-Burman languages, there is no relative pronoun; its place is taken by descriptive adjectival phrases.
Ka- may be prefixed, forming kave, used as an adjectival negative: kopai (Ass.
Great use is made of adjectival or participial forms, and, in narrative, of the conjunctive participle.
The accusative is also used after active participles (adjectival or adverbial) to denote the object.
The adjectival in -A, the adverbial in -E, and the substantival in -O.
Possessive Pronouns are formed by adding the adjectival A to the personal pronouns.
They are essentially adjectives, and follow the adjectival rules as to the formation of the plural and the accusative.
Such words have, in Esperanto, an adjectival as well as a participial form, and we must be careful to use the right one in accordance with the sense.
The adjectivalexpression of the idea of possession.
The prepositions of deflection, when complex, originate chiefly in nouns, accompanied by an absolute preposition; as instead of of substantival, between of adjectival origin.
Nor yet are there any equivalents in English to the so-called adjectivalforms suus, sua, suum: since his and her are the equivalents to ejus and illius, and are not adjectives but genitive cases.
It may be doubted, however, whether our be a true genitive rather than an adjectival form.
Herein the word bright means brightly; and although the use of the latter word would have been the more elegant, the expression is not ungrammatical; the word bright being looked upon as an adjectival adverb.
In Saxon there is of course no such an adjectival form.
The plural word selves, a substantival, and not anadjectival form.
Whatever may be the nature of words like mine and thine, the adjectival character of their Latin equivalents, meus and tuus, is undoubted.
In himself and themselves an adjective (or with an adjectival power), and preceded by an accusative case.
On the other hand, it ought not to be concealed that another word, whereof the preponderance of the adjectival over the substantival power is undoubted, is found in the Old English, with just the same inconsistency as the word self; i.
In Anglo-Saxon there was the adjectivalform laessa, and the adverbial form laes.
Its later form, moe, occurs as late as Queen Elizabeth, with an adjectival as well as an adverbial sense.
In Meier it is used as a title for the theory of probable reasoning,[1371] and in Baumgarten it occurs only in adjectival form as equivalent to sophistical.
Following this, and on account of its particular usage and formation, we will discuss the conjugation of the adjectival verb.
The foundation of the present scepticism originated in the observation that the supposed national existence of the Seres coincided with the introduction of the term seric into languages where ic- was an adjectival affix.
Neither was it in the simpler form ser- that the term was introduced into the classical languages so that the adjectival -ic might be appended afterwards.
If in the first, it supplies a remarkable instance of an unequivocally adjectival form, as tested by an inflection in the way of gender, having grown out of a case.
In Rode hengenne, another title of Stonehenge,[636] we have apparently the older plural hengen with the adjectival rood or ruddy, whence Stonehenge would seem to have been a shrine of the Red Rood Anges.
In huss, the German for goose, we may recognise the oose without its adjectival 'g'.
Along the lower part of the Shannon, in the counties of Galway, Tipperary and Limerick, there was an ancient population known as Fir Iboth, or by the adjectival name Ibdaig.
For adjectival words derive their number from the supposita but substantives from themselves, according to the form signified.
On the other hand, the names which signify essence in an adjectival manner are predicated of the three persons plurally, by reason of the plurality of supposita.
The difference between substantive and adjectival names consist in this, that the former carry their subject with them, whereas the latter do not, but add the thing signified to the substantive.
Again, double negatives constituted 11 per cent of the errors, and the misuse of adjectives or of adjectival forms for adverbs ran to 4 per cent.
The use of the adjectival prefix /super-/ is confined to the more sophisticated classes; the plain people seem to be unaware of it.
Moreover, this perfect participle, thus put in place of the preterite, was further reinforced by the fact that it was the adjectival form of the verb, and hence collaterally familiar.
Hence the Seriens are the Seres, or Chinese; and the venim of Tyrie should rather be the venim of Tyre, but Chaucer follows the adjectival form in the original, both here and in Bk.
The Rovers practiced the science and culture of the game; the Britannia relied on brute force and adjectival ignorance.
But now she was again herself, she was both shrewd and wary; after all, this double-adjectival idiot was the goose that laid the golden eggs.
She half respected him for speaking to her in that way, and in such a tone; there was perhaps a little more to the double-adjectival one than she had guessed.
The nounal and theadjectival uses of participial forms we distinguish very sharply.
The name participle is as true to its etymology when applied to the nounal use of the verb as when applied to the adjectival use.
The invocation consists of phrases and adjectival clauses: it makes no statement.
This call to praise was followed by the body of the hymn setting forth in participial phrases, adjectival clauses, or independent sentences the reasons why men should praise Yahwe.
He states that he regards the expression "complete" as applied to a story, as a specimen of the "adjectival exuberance of the puffer.
There is a class of words having always an adjectival use in general, but with such subtle functions and various meanings that they deserve separate treatment.
The participle has been called an adjectival verbal; the gerund may be called a noun verbal.
The adjectival use, modifying a noun that may be a subject, object, complement, etc.
The words are used in the sentence where nouns are used, but have an adjectival meaning.
Here wounded and avowed are participles, but are used with the same adjectival force that bloodthirsty is (see Sec.
The adjectival may stand for Mass, "Great," or Matt, derogative.
Mohegan adjectivaland attach to it a Lenape locative suffix.
The same adjectival appears in Waronawanka at Kingston, and the same word in Woronake on the Sound at Milford, Ct.
FN] As the word stands its adjectival does not mean anything.
The adjectival may be an adverb or a preposition; the substantival element is often a verbal, which serves in composition as a generic name, but which cannot be used as an independent word--the synthesis always retains the verbal form.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "adjectival" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
