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English
Etymology
From adjective + -al.
Pronunciation
Adjective
adjectival (comparative more adjectival, superlative most adjectival)
- (grammar) Of or relating to or functioning as an adjective.
- Synonym: adjective
- (law) Of or relating to procedure, especially to technicalities thereof.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
functioning as an adjective
- Afrikaans: byvoeglik
- Albanian: mbiemëror (sq)
- Arabic: وَصْفِيّ (waṣfiyy), نَعْتِيّ (naʕtiyy)
- Armenian: ածական (hy) (acakan), ածականական (hy) (acakanakan)
- Asturian: axetivu (ast)
- Azerbaijani: sıfət
- Bashkir: сифат (sifat)
- Basque: please add this translation if you can
- Belarusian: ад'екты́ўны (adʺjektýŭny)
- Bengali: please add this translation if you can
- Catalan: adjectiu (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 形容詞的／形容词的 (zh) (xíngróngcí de)
- Czech: adjektivní (cs), přídavné jméno (cs) n
- Danish: adjektiv (da) n
- Dhivehi: ނަނއިތުރު (nanituru)
- Dutch: bijvoeglijk (nl), adjectivisch (nl)
- Esperanto: adjektiva (eo)
- Faroese: lýsingarorð (fo) n
- Finnish: adjektiivi- (fi) (in compound words), adjektiivinen (fi) (otherwise)
- French: adjectif (fr), adjectival (fr)
- Galician: adxectivo (gl)
- Georgian: ზედსართავური (zedsartavuri)
- German: beiwörtlich, eigenschaftswörtlich; adjektivisch (de), Adjektiv- (de)
- Greek: επιθετικός (el) (epithetikós)
- Hungarian: melléknévi (hu)
- Icelandic: lýsingarorð (is)
- Ido: adjektiva (io)
- Indonesian: kata sifat (id)
- Interlingua: adjective (ia), adjectival
- Irish: aidiachtach, aidiachtúil
- Italian: aggettivale (it)
- Japanese: 形容詞の (ja) (けいようしの, keiyōshi no)
- Javanese: please add this translation if you can
- Kashmiri: please add this translation if you can
- Kazakh: сын есім (syn esım)
- Korean: 형용사 (ko) (hyeong'yongsa)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: rengdêr (ku), sifet (ku)
- Kyrgyz: please add this translation if you can
- Latin: adjectivus (dated: adiectivus), adjectivalis (dated: adiectivalis)
- Macedonian: придавен (pridaven), придавски (pridavski)
- Malay: kata sifat (ms)
- Manx: marennymagh
- Nepali: विशेषण (ne) (viśeṣaṇ)
- Old English: tōġeīecendlīċ
- Persian: وصفی (fa) (vasfi)
- Polish: przymiotnikowy (pl), adiektywalny (uncommon), adiektywny (uncommon)
- Portuguese: adjectivo (pt) (Portugal), adjetivo (pt) (Brazil)
- Punjabi: ਵਿਸ਼ੇਸ਼ਣੀ (viśeśṇī)
- Quechua: sutip rampaqnin
- Romanian: adjectival (ro)
- Russian: прилага́тельный (prilagátelʹnyj), адъекти́вный (ru) (adʺjektívnyj), адъективи́рованный (ru) (adʺjektivírovannyj)
- Samogitian: please add this translation if you can
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: при́дјевскӣ
- Roman: prídjevskī (sh)
- Slovak: prídavné meno (sk)
- Slovene: pridevniški, ádjektiven
- Spanish: adjetival (es), adjetivo (es)
- Sundanese: adjéktif
- Swahili: tashbihi (sw)
- Swedish: adjektivisk (sv)
- Tagalog: pang-uri (tl)
- Tajik: please add this translation if you can
- Tamil: உரிச்சொல் (ta) (uriccol)
- Thai: คุณศัพท์ (th) (kun-ná-sàp)
- Turkish: sıfat (tr)
- Turkmen: sypat (tk)
- Ukrainian: ад'єкти́вний (adʺjektývnyj)
- Uzbek: sifat (uz)
- Vietnamese: có tính chất tính từ
- Volapük: ladyekik (vo)
- Walloon: addjectivrece (wa)
- Welsh: ansoddeiriol (cy)
- West Frisian: eigenskiplik, adjektivysk
- Yiddish: אַדיעקטיוויש (adyektivish)
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Noun
adjectival (plural adjectivals)
- An adjectival phrase or clause.
2013, Harrie Wetzer, The Typology of Adjectival Predication, page 240:Within this line of reasoning, then, Tagalog is classified as a language in which adjectivals are essentially neutral between a nouny and a verby interpretation.
References
- ^ “Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), 2022 March 13 (last accessed), archived from the original on 5 May 2009
- ^ “adjectival”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
French
Etymology
From adjective + -al.
Pronunciation
Adjective
adjectival (feminine adjectivale, masculine plural adjectivaux, feminine plural adjectivales)
- adjectival
Derived terms
Further reading
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French adjectival.
Pronunciation
Adjective
adjectival m or n (feminine singular adjectivală, masculine plural adjectivali, feminine and neuter plural adjectivale)
- adjectival
Declension