Adjective

==English==
===Etymology===
From , from , from + , perfect passive participle of + , adjective ending; hence, a word "thrown next to" a noun, modifying it.
===Pronunciation===
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===Adjective===
# Incapable of independent function.
#* 1899, John Jay Chapman, Emerson and Other Essays, AMS Press (1969) (as reproduced in Project Gutenberg)
#*: In fact, God is of not so much importance in Himself, but as the end towards which man tends. That irreverent person who said that Browning uses “God” as a pigment made an accurate criticism of his theology. In Browning, God is adjective to man.
# Adjectival; pertaining to or functioning as an adjective.
# Applying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure.
#: adjective law
# Of a dye that needs the use of a mordant to be made fast to that which is being dyed.
====Synonyms====
* dependent, derivative
* adjectival
* procedural
====Antonyms====
* substantive
* substantive
====Derived terms====
* adjectival
* adjective clause
* adjective phrase
* adjective patterns
* proper adjective
====Translations====
* Catalan: 
* Afrikaans: 
* Albanian: mbiemër
* Arabic: , 
* Armenian: 
* Catalan: 
* Dutch: bijvoeglijk, adjectivisch
* Filipino: 
* Finnish: adjektiivi (in compound words), adjektiivinen (otherwise)
* French: 
* German: 
* Greek: 
* Indonesian: 
* Interlingua: adjective, adjectival
* Irish: 
* Italian: 
* Japanese: 形容詞の (けいようしの, keiyōshi no)
* 
* Korean: 형용사 (hyeong-yongsa)
* Latin: 
* Macedonian: , 
* Novial: adjektivi, adjektival
* Polish: przymiotnikowy , przymiotnikowa , przymiotnikowe 
* Portuguese: adjectivo (Portugal), adjetivo (Brazil)
* Quechua: 
* Romanian: 
* Russian: 
* Slovene: pridevniški , pridevniška , pridevniško 
* Spanish: 
* Swahili: 
* Swedish: 
* Tagalog: 
* Thai: (koon sàp)
* Vietnamese: 
* West Frisian: 
* Arabic: 
* Dutch: 
* French: de procédure
* Interlingua: adjective, adjectival
* Japanese: 手続き上の (てつづきじょうの, tetsudzukijō no)
* Polish: przymiotnikowy , przymiotnikowa , przymiotnikowe 
* Portuguese: adjectivo (Portugal), adjetivo (Brazil)
* Romanian: adjectiv , adjectivă 
* Spanish: 
* Swahili: 
* West Frisian: 
* Catalan: 
===Noun===
# A word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent.
#: The words “big” and “heavy” are English adjectives.
====Usage notes====
Adjectives compose a fundamental category of words in most languages. In most lanuages, most adjectives can be used both attributively and predicatively, can be graded, and can be modified by an adverb.
====Hyponyms====
* See also Wikisaurus:adjective
====Translations====
* Afrikaans: 
* Albanian: 
*: Tosk: 
* Arabic: , 
* 
* Armenian: 
* Asturian: 
* Azeri: 
* Basque: , 
* Belarusian: 
* Bengali: 
* 
* Breton: 
* Bulgarian: прилагателно име (prilagátelno íme) 
* Burmese: 
* Catalan: 
* Chechen: 
* Chinese:
*: Cantonese: 
*: Mandarin: (xíngróngcí)
*: Min Nan: hêng-iông-sû
* Chuvash: 
* Crimean Tatar: 
* Czech: 
* Danish: , 
* 
* Dutch: , 
* Esperanto: 
* Estonian: , 
* 
* Filipino: 
* Finnish: , 
* French: 
* Friulian: 
* Galician: 
* Georgian: ზედსართავი სახელი (zedsart‘avi saxeli)
* German: , 
* Greek: 
* Hebrew: 
* Hindi: 
* Hungarian: 
* Icelandic: 
* Ido: 
* Indonesian: , 
* Interlingua: 
* Interlingue: 
* Irish: 
* Italian: 
* Japanese: (けいようし) , (けいようどうし) 
* 
* Kashubian: przëdownik 
* Kazakh: 
* Korean: 형용사 (形容詞, hyeong-yongsa)
* 
* Latin: 
* Latvian: 
* Limburgish: 
* Lingala: 
* Lithuanian: 
* Low Saxon: 
* Lower Sorbian: adjektiw 
* Macedonian: 
* Malay: 
* Malayalam: 
* Maltese: 
* Mongolian: 
* 
* Norwegian:
*: Bokmål: 
*: Nynorsk: 
* Novial: adjektive
* Persian: (sefat)
* Polish: 
* Portuguese: (Portugal), (Brazil)
* Quechua: 
* Romanian: 
* Romansch: 
* Russian: 
* Sanskrit: 
* Scots: 
* Scottish Gaelic: 
* Serbo-Croatian:
*: Cyrillic: (Ekavian) , (Ijekavian) 
*: Roman: (Ekavian) , (Ijekavian) 
* Sicilian: 
* Slovak: 
* Slovene: 
* Spanish: 
* Sundanese: 
* Swahili: , 
* Swedish: 
* Tagalog: 
* Telugu: విశేషణము (viSEshaNamu)
* Thai: 
* Turkish: , 
* Ukrainian: 
* Upper Sorbian: adjektiw 
* Urdu: , 
* Vietnamese: 
* Walloon: 
* West Frisian: 
* Yiddish: 
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Category:Adjectives
Category:Parts of speech
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==French==
===Adjective===
# 
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==Interlingue==
===Noun===
# adjective
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==Romanian==
===Pronunciation===
* 
===Noun===
adjective 
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