ABSTRACT

Adjectives are words which describe or qualify nouns, ‘big’, ‘small’, ‘old’ etc.

‘Attributive’ adjectives belong to the noun phrase itself, e.g. krásnp les ‘a beautiful forest’.

‘Predicative’ adjectives act as the complement of a verb, typically the verb ‘to be’, referring back to the noun they qualify, e.g. les je krásnp ‘the forest is beautiful’.