Saying What Something Is Like

Use an established property word, whether a root such as dakkel or a derived adjective such as napintas. An ordinary adjective predicate does not need a linker before its marked subject. Within a noun phrase, however, a linker connects the modifier and noun.

Compare Napintas ti sabong., 'The flower is pretty,' with the fragment ti napintas a sabong, 'the pretty flower.' Under the chosen KWF spelling convention, linker selection follows the next word's initial sound: a before a consonant, nga before a vowel. Older references also attest broader linker use.

Plural adjective forms exist, but the excerpts do not establish a universal requirement to copy every plural predicate. Comparison, strong degree, and becoming require their own constructions. A limited exception permits weather or illumination adjectives without a subject when accompanied by temporal or locative modification, as in a statement that it is cool somewhere.