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dancing spawn of ungoliant · 08-22-2003, 06:13 AM

I read the Quenya lesson from Ardalambion and at least in all the exercises the adjectives were placed before the noun. For example "the greatest ship" would be "i analta cirya" (i=the, analta=greatest, cirya=ship).

I don't remember exactly if there was said that it would be acceptable to place the adjective after the noun...but if you use English-like word order it should be totally right. So put the adjective before the noun.

I'm not sure how it goes in Sindarin but I would assume that the word order is similar to Quenya's. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

[ August 22, 2003: Message edited by: dancing spawn of ungoliant ]

08-22-2003, 06:13 AM	#2
dancing spawn of ungoliant Mischievous Candle Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: So near to Russia, so far from Japan, quite a long way from Cairo, lots of miles from Vietnam. Posts: 1,234	I read the Quenya lesson from Ardalambion and at least in all the exercises the adjectives were placed before the noun. For example "the greatest ship" would be "i analta cirya" (i=the, analta=greatest, cirya=ship). I don't remember exactly if there was said that it would be acceptable to place the adjective after the noun...but if you use English-like word order it should be totally right. So put the adjective before the noun. I'm not sure how it goes in Sindarin but I would assume that the word order is similar to Quenya's. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] [ August 22, 2003: Message edited by: dancing spawn of ungoliant ] __________________ Fenris Wolf

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