Adjective Placement
Where does the adjective go? Before the noun, or after verbs like be, look and taste.
adjective එකක් සාමාන්යයෙන් එන්නේ noun එකට කලින් (a hot day). එහෙම නැත්නම් be, look, feel, seem, taste, smell, sound වගේ ක්රියාපදවලට පස්සේ (It looks hot). සිංහලෙත් මේ විදියමයි: "රස්නෙ දවසක්", "දවස රස්නෙයි".
1. Before the noun
Before the noun
- The beautiful girl ignored me. 💔
- The fast red car drove away.
- I want a hot cup of tea.
2. After be, look, feel, taste…
After these verbs
- Sri Lanka is beautiful.
- You look tired.
- This curry tastes amazing.
- She seems nice.
- I feel sick.
Making them stronger
Put very, really, so or quite in front:
Stronger
- It's really hot today.
- That film was so boring.
Some adjectives are already very strong, like amazing, terrible, huge, freezing, exhausted. With those, use really or absolutely, not very: absolutely amazing ✓, very amazing ✗.
A few that go after the noun
Some adjectives change meaning depending on where they go:
Before or after?
- the people present at the meetingafter: who were there
- the present situationbefore: now
- the people involvedafter: connected
- a concerned fatherbefore: worried
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This biriyani smells so !
You look today. Did you get the job?
The view from Sigiriya was .
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