36 Introduction to Adjective Declension

“Let’s stay a bit longer. We’re going to add to your vocabulary by talking about adjectives now. An Adjective is a word that describes a noun or pronoun: that it is warm, bright, or belongs, say, to him: warm fire, bright fire, his fire – those are adjectives describing a fire.”

“English adjectives usually have just one form. Latin adjectives, by contrast, have forms that tell you gender, number, and case. They are like Latin nouns in that respect, but, unlike Latin nouns, they can be any gender – masculine, feminine, or neuter. We’ll learn why this is so in a moment. When you see an adjective in the dictionary, it will often have three words that are the Masculine, Feminine, and Neuter Nominative Singular forms, like so:”