Template talk:af-adj

Unfortunately this template - and apparently a lot of the forms - have been created without proper knowledge of Afrikaans grammar.

The rules for the attributive forms are much more complicated than "simply add -e". The basic rules (off the top of my head) are:

1. Polysyllabic adjectives inflect when the last syllable has a full vowel or the suffixes -ig, -lik. Otherwise they don't inflect, but this is of course a minority.

2. Monosyllabic adjectives, to the contrary, predominantly do not inflect. They only do when they end in certain consonants or clusters, especially -f, -d or obstruent + underlying -t (which doesn't surface in the basic form). There is also quite a bit of irregularity there and sometimes both forms are possible.

Per se uninflected adjectives nevertheless take -e in independent use: die swart perd ("the black horse"), but die swarte ("the black one"). Independent adjectives also take plurals in -s: die wit perde en die swartes ("the white horses and the black ones"). Moreover there's the partitive form in -s: iets swarts ("something black"). But for all of this we'd need a proper declension template. For the head template, the three forms "attributive", "comparative", "superlative" are sufficient. However, they should have been created in the correct way.

If I have time to go through the list of adjectives someday, I will. But you really should have checked a grammar first. Sorry to say :) 92.218.236.92 23:21, 31 May 2022 (UTC)