ABSTRACT
Both English and Norwegian use adjectival nouns in the plural definite to indicate persons. Norwegian goes much further than English in its use of adjectival nouns, as the article form alone indicates number. Both attributive and predicative adjectives adopt a form according to the gender and number of the noun or pronoun to which they refer. Most loans tend after a while to inflect in the same way as ordinary Norwegian adjectives. Norwegian adjectives possess a basic form which is inflected according to number, gender and definite/indefinite, a comparative form which is uninflected and a superlative form which is inflected only for definiteness. Most monosyllabic Norwegian adjectives add – ere to the positive in order to form the comparative and – est to the positive to form the superlative. Adjectives usually comparing with mere and mest form a large and varied group, including most bi- and polysyllabic adjectives.
