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Lower Sorbian/Grammar/Declension of adjectives
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sg. (m, f, n)
pl.
du.
NOM
dobry [1], dobra, dobre [4]
dobre
dobrej
GEN
dobrego, dobreje, dobrego / [5]
dobrych [1]
dobreju
DAT
dobremu [5], dobrej, dobremu [5]
dobrym [1]
dobryma [1]
ACC
=NOM./GEN. [2], dobru, dobre
=NOM./GEN. [3]
=NOM./GEN. [3]
INS
dobrym [1], dobreju, dobrym [1]
dobrymi [1]
dobryma [1]
LOC
dobrem, dobrej, dobrem
dobrych [1]
dobryma [1]
[1] endings of masculine NOM. sg.: (a) –y, (b) –i,
(a) –y ending: adjectives not mentioned in (b)
(b) –i ending:
soft-stemmed adjectives
adjectives: (1) tuni `cheap`, (2) dwoji `twofold`, (3) tšoji `threefold`, (4) tśeśi `third`, (5) chłošći `voracious`, (6) kokośi `hen-like`, (7) kurośi `rooster-like`
adjectives ending with –ki, –gi, e.g. daloki, drogi
[2] category of (un)animacy
[3] category of (non-)personhood
[4] neuter adjectives in a predicative meaning take –o ending, np. źěnsa jo śopło `today is warm`
[5] when 2 or more adjectives ending with –ego, -eje, -emu stay concatenated, the last vowel is being omitted, np. dobrem a pśijaznem cłowjekoju
[6] there exists a noun ženska `woman`,
which is inflected following a feminine adjectival pattern, only alternatively taking forms of nominal inflection in GEN. DAT. INS. LOC. sg. and NOM.
ACC. du. and pl.