Weak 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.

Comparative adjectives ('Of the two wicked witches in The Wizard of Oz, the flatter witch is the Wicked Witch of the East') are weak. The paradigm used here is tila, 'good'.

Tips for learning:

• the table above is very similar to the tables for the weak nouns of the three genders - the only difference is in plural genitive tilra instead of the less commonly found tilena, the form that would be expected from comparison with the noun tables

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