Adjectives [vivumishi vya sifa]
Adjectives are formed by attaching the noun class marker to an adjectival stem.Adjectives have various properties:
Word origin (e.g. Bantu, Arabic)
Borrowed adjectives which do not have prefixes (i.e. non‐Bantu)
Verbal adjectives
In English, adjectives come before the noun, but in Kiswahili adjectives follow the noun that they describe.
A). Adjectives in Various Noun Classes |
| The adjectives below are introduced without any prefix, so that youmay recognize them from their roots. Adjectives adopt the prefix that agrees with the noun they qualify. The agreement of the prefixes is identical to the class prefixes of the nouns with which they agree. Mifano: 1. -zuri [good, nice, beautiful] 2. -baya [bad] 3. -dogo [small, little] 4. -kubwa [big] 5. -ingi [a lot, many] 6. -chache [a few, some] 7. -refu [tall] 8. -fupi [short] 9. -zee [old] 10. -pya [new] 11. -changa [young] 12. -haba [few] 13. -tele [plenty] |
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