Mavzu: Adjectives and adverbs

Agreement

In some languages adjectives alter their form to reflect the gender, case and number of the noun which they describe. This is called agreement or concord. Usually it takes the form of inflections at the end of the word, as in Latin:puella bona (good girl, feminine)

puellam bonam (good girl, feminine accusative/object case)

puer bonus (good boy, masculine)

pueri boni (good boys, masculine plural)

In the Celtic languages, however, initial consonant lenition marks the adjective with a feminine noun, as in Scottish Gaelic:balach math (good boy, masculine)

nighean mhath (good girl, feminine)

Often a distinction is made here between attributive and predicative usage. Where English is an example of a language where adjectives never agree and French of a language where they always agree, in German they agree only when used attributively, and in Hungarian only when used predicatively.The good (Ø) boys. The boys are good (Ø).

Les bons garçons. Les garçons sont bons.

Die braven Jungen. Die Jungen sind brav (Ø).

Ak jo (Ø) fiúk. Ak fiúk jok.