adú / bassít

Adu describes a large quantity: “many” with countable items and “much” with an amount. Bassit can mean “small,” “little” or “few.” The noun and situation determine whether the description concerns quantity or physical size.

These words can serve as predicates before marked participants. Adu ti danum ditoy describes an amount of water, while Bassit ti libro ni Rosa describes a book’s size. They can also modify a noun through a linker: before consonant-initial libro, the selected modern form is a.

The lessons attest a separate plural descriptive form of bassit. That evidence does not make reduplication compulsory in every quantity predicate. Quantity and size use these established predicate and linked-noun frames; another verb’s amount complement needs its own construction. Ordinary spelling preserves bassit’s doubled s; the catalog’s acute accents indicate stress.