predicate adjective

There is not an equivalent to the English predicate adjective.

We all thought she was looking for him at least; certainly not for a mere predicate adjective.

Even though they lack the -ly, these words are not predicate adjectives but adverbs.

A predicate adjective in Irish does not inflect:

That triggers another question: do poets and other writers, as they do their thing, knock themselves out worrying about predicate adjectives versus adverbs?

Predicate adjectives (e.g. kalt in mir ist kalt "I am cold") are undeclined.

This corresponds to those grammars in which nouns and adjectives phase into each other in more areas than, for example, the English term predicate adjective entails.

If you respond to this heavy pedagogy with "I am bored," I is the subject, am the linking verb and bored the predicate adjective.

While attributive adjectives-that is, those that directly modify a noun-are inflected to agree with the noun in number, gender, and case, predicate adjectives remain uninflected.

In the case of predication via a copula (typically esse), the case of the predicate adjective or noun changes from nominative to accusative.

These verbs precede nouns or adjectives in a sentence, which become predicate nouns and predicate adjectives similar to those that function with a linking verb.

There are also small areas in Jutland where predicate adjectives as well as adjectives in indefinite noun phrases have gender congruence in the neuter form.

The independent forms of the copula introduce predicate nominal and predicate locative constructions, and the enclitic forms introduce predicate adjectives.

The most frequently acknowledged types of predicative expressions are predicative adjectives (also predicate adjectives) and predicative nominals (also predicate nominals).

Here mine may be considered to be a predicate adjective (like red in the book is red) rather than a pronoun; in English, however, the same possessive form is used anyway.

Adjectives that come after linking verbs are predicate adjectives, and nouns that come after linking verbs are predicate nouns.

The ambiguity in such sentences arises because the verb be is used in English both as the passive auxiliary and as the ordinary copular verb for linking to predicate adjectives.

Lord God, open this idiotic fool's inner heart to the wisdom of Thee: which is that no man can see Thee and announce predicate adjectives as to Thy appearance and being."

The principally cited candidate is the replacement of predicate adjectives with verbs, such as la ĉielo bluas (the sky is blue) for la ĉielo estas blua and mia filino belu!

Because it follows a linking verb ("feel"), conflicted in this case is a predicate adjective - a past participle used as an adjective after a linking verb - and is not a verb.

Predicative adjectives are linked via a copula or other linking mechanism to the noun or pronoun they modify; for example, happy is a predicate adjective in "they are happy" and in "that made me happy."

Confusion is most likely to arise when the -ing word follows a verb, in which case it may be a predicate adjective and hence a participle, or a direct object (or predicate nominative) and hence a gerund.

When they are used as predicative expressions, as in this is mine and that pen is John's, the intended sense may be either that of a pronoun or of a predicate adjective; however their form (mine, yours, etc.) in this case is the same as that used in other sentences for possessive pronouns.