Language/Uighur/Grammar/Nouns-and-adjectives

Uighur Nouns and Ajectives

Uyghur nouns are marked for the following categories:

• There are two numbers: singular and plural.
• There are six cases: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, locative, ablative. Cases are marked by inflectional suffixes whose forms depend on whether the stem ends in a front vowel, a back vowel, a voiced consonant, or a voiceless consonant.
• There is no definite article.
• There is no grammatical gender.
• Possession is represented by the suffix –m, e.g. aka ‘elder brother’, aka-m ‘my elder brother.’
• Adjectives have four degrees of comparison:
  • positive
  • comparative
  • weakened, similar to the meaning of –ish in longish
  • superlative which can be expressed in several ways, including reduplication, e.g., uzun-uzun ‘very long’.

With the completion of this lesson, consider investigating these related pages: Say Hello and Greetings in Uighur, Verbs & Questions.

Source

https://www.mustgo.com/worldlanguages/uyghur/

Other Lessons

• Pronouns
• Adverbs
• Questions
• Verbs
• Word order
• Possession