User talk:Jedi Friend


 * Thank you very much! Jedi Friend (talk) 12:21, 27 March 2019 (UTC)

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I noticed that we have over 1000 Hawaiian entries, but this is the first adjective. That seems a little odd, does Hawaiian actually have adjectives? —Rua (mew) 21:20, 23 April 2019 (UTC)


 * It does seem like they do. For instance, pretty is nani and strong is ikaika. This is also verified by the Hawaiian dictionary, Nā Puke Wehewehe ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi'. It is indeed very odd that there weren't any adjective entries. Jedi Friend (talk) 12:46, 24 April 2019 (UTC)
 * According to the deletion discussion at Category talk:Hawaiian adjectives, Hawaiian does not have adjectives. So that category should not be recreated. —Rua (mew) 13:00, 24 April 2019 (UTC)
 * It's a matter of terminology. Like many languages, Hawaiian uses stative verbs where we use adjectives. They may function semantically like adjectives, but they're grammatically verbs. This is the kind of distinction that reference works for English speakers may gloss over in order to avoid confusion. To be consistent with the approach in all the other Hawaiian entries, "adjectives" should be treated as stative verbs. Chuck Entz (talk) 23:19, 27 April 2019 (UTC)