Qualitative adjectives

The adjectives belonging to this class express the quality of the noun that is being qualified by them.

bo:re ‘different’ ca:yi ‘beautiful’ paya ‘old’

Quantitative adjectives

The adjectives belonging to this class express the quantity of the noun that is being qualified by them. These are also called as intensifiers since they modify the adjective.

tumba ‘much’ ba:a ‘more’

Demonstrative adjective

Three adjectives belong to this class.

Remote demonstrative adjectives.

a: ‘that, those’

Proximate demonstrative adjectives.

i: ‘this, these’

Interrogative adjective.

e: ‘which’

6.1.2.   Derived adjectives

The adjectives are derived from appellative verbs, cardinal numerals colour terms, nouns and verbs.