(COME BACK) Adjective Endings (R108)

Question 1

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Answer 1

This is really just too much effort for the reward. Adjective endings are -e, -en, -es, and occasionally -er.

They can be used, in sentences without determiners, to help determine the case of the noun they modify, but in general that should be clear from the context of the sentence.

Where it is important to remember these endings is in the case of extended adjectival phrases. The phrase may or may not have a “break,’ (i.e., a determiner and a preposition that feels awkward: “the through,” or “a heretofore”). If there is an extended adjective phrase, it exists entirely between a determiner and its noun. Its ending is signified by an ending on an adjective immediately before the noun it modifies.

These are best translated in the “hitherto-unknown-by-her” kind of construction. That’s how we think about it as English speakers.

The word order can be fantastically out of order, though, so there’s just some inherent struggle in it.