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Strong Adjectives

Adjectives are declined weak or strong depending on how they are used in a sentence. When the adjective follows a demonstrative or a possessive (like 'the wicked witch' or 'my wicked witch'), the adjective is weak; when it stands alone (like 'the witch is wicked' or 'wicked witches'), the adjective is strong.

Superlative adjectives ('Of all the witches in The Wizard of Oz, the wettest witch is the Wicked Witch of the West') are generally strong, although there are exceptions. The paradigm used here is til, 'good'.

Strong Adjective til
tilMasculineNeuterFeminine
Nominative til til tilu
Accusative tilne til tile
Genitive tiles tiles tilre
Dative tilum tilum tilre
Plural
Nominative tile tilu tile
Accusative tile tilu tile
Genitive tilra tilra tilra
Dative tilum tilum tilum


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