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Lesson 12: Adjectives & Adverbs

Position: Always After the Noun In Sindarin, adjectives always follow the noun they modify. This is the opposite of English ("great king" vs. aran veleg — literally "king great") and reflects a strong Celtic influence. Welsh, for example, also places adjectives after their nouns: brenin mawr = "great king" (lit. "king great"). This post-nominal position is not optional or stylistic — it is grammatical rule. An adjective placed before its...

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Correlatives

What Are Correlatives? The correlatives (also called tabelvortoj — table words) are a systematic table of 45 words formed by combining 5 prefixes (ki-, ti-, ĉi-, neni-, i-) with 9 suffixes (-o, -a, -e, -el, -al, -am, -es, -om, -u). Every cell of this 5×9 table is a real, usable word. Once you learn the meaning of each prefix and each suffix, you automatically know all 45 words. This is...