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In Telugu, the basic sentences can be responded by inserting one more word as adjective before a noun.

 

S1

                N1                           n2

 

      Adi pustakam

 

S1

                N1              adj           n2

    Adi kotta pustakam

 

 

In fig(2)  n2 is preceded by an adjective to qualify the following noun

 

In Telugu , adjectives are divided into the following categories

 

1. Basic adjectives are

                         aa

                         ii

                         prati

                         ee?

                         Oka                    

                       Aa,ii are the oblique forms(derived) from adi,idi,eedi. Those adjective forms are always used                    

                      as adjectives in any type of sentence.These are called noun phrases.

                     Prati rooju

                    Aa pustakam

                    Ii kaagitam

                    Oka pustakam

2. Adjectives which qualify the nouns by their quality / quantity etc

 

                     Kotta------------idi kotta sinimaa

                     Paata------------adi paata paaTa

                     Cinna-----------idi cinna hoTel

                     Pedda----------adi pedda gaDiyaaram

                     Manci----------aame manci maniSi

                     CeDDa---------atanu ceDDa waaDu

                     Tella-----------adi tella gurram

                     Nalla----------idi nalla meeka

                      Erra-----------adi erra mandaaram

 

3.Numeral adjectives: 

   In the third level of verbless sentences ,we  can also include an adjective form in the sentence i.e ,N1 can be expanded by prefixing an adjective form to make a  noun phrase

 Adi pustakam

 

Adi naa pustakam

 

 

In the above figures ,fig(1) has only two words(N1 and N2).

In fig(2) N2 is prefixed by an adjective.Similarly,in fig(3) N1 is prefixed by an oblique form to make a noun phrase.Like this,the fig(3) is expanded with two NPs (NP1,Np2).Then the sentence would be like this

 aa  pustakam naa pustakam                                                     

In this type of sentence , the oblique forms 'aa' ,'ii','ee' are used in the beginning .And these sentences can also be expanded as follows

 

1)       renDu pustakaalu naa pustakaalu

2)       renDu pustakaalu naa telugu pustakaalu

 

 ModaTi                       first                                ayana     modaTi pradhanamantri     

 Rendoo                      second                            eeyana eandoo adyakSuDu

 MuuDoo                    third                                aaviDa mudo upanyaasakuralu

 Ennoo            number in the order                      miiru enno waaru ?

4.Nominal adjectives:

Though they are nouns ,by their position in the phrase ,preceeding a noun ,they become adjectives

 

  Telugu-------------------------------------idi telugu pustakam

  Kalupu-------------------------------------adi kalupu mokka

  Koyya-------------------------------------idi koyya balla

 GooDa------------------------------------adi gooDa gaDiyaaram

 Rendu-------------------------------------avi rendu pustakaalu

 Padi-----------------------------------------ivi padi kampyuuTarlu

 Padahaaru---------------------------------avi padahaaru meTlu

5.Derived adjective forms

   The following forms can be derived by changing their endings into oblique forms

                 'a '  , ' i ', 'T', ' ti '  oblique form

 

                            kaLLu-kaLLa-kaLLa jooDu

                            uuru-uuri-uuri bassu

                            kannu-kanTi-kanTi coopu

                            ceyyi-ceeti-ceeti gaaju

 

6.Pronominal adjectives

             All the telugu pronouns can be changed  into adjective forms and are known as pronominal adjectives.

 

Neenu---------naa(my) ----idi naa kampyuuTar.

Meem----------maa(our)----idi maa illu.

Niivu-----------nii(your)-----idi nii kemeraa

Miiru-----------mii(your(honour))----aayana mii raamaraavugaaru

                                                                aayana mii  mantrigaaru

aayana mii  seneeTargaruu

manam-----------mana(our)-------idi mana kaar

waaDu--------waaDi/waani (his)--------waaDi viidiyoo

                                                                    waani Telifonu

atanu--------atani(his)--------------atani saykil

aayana-----aayana(his)-------idi aayana kampeni

waaru------waari(his)------idi waari pennu

adi--------dani(her)---------idi dani fooToo

aame-----aame(her)--------idi aame Dressu

aaviDa-----aaviDa(her)----ivi aaviDa gaajulu

ivi aaviDa golusu

waaru-----waari(her)-------idi waari goDugu

adi-------daani(its)-------idi dani

avi-------waaTi(their)-----ivi waaTi addaalu

waaLLu----waLLa(her)----wiiLLu WaLLa cuTTaalu