Adjectives & Adverbs

صفت + اسم مطابقت

Adjective-noun agreement

ṣifat + ism muṭābaqat

Adjectives ending in ā agree with noun: اچھا لڑکا but اچھی لڑکی

غیر متغیر صفات

Invariable adjectives

ghair mutaghayyir ṣifāt

Adjectives not ending in ā don't change: خوبصورت stays same

تفضیل: زیادہ... سے

Comparative: more... than

tafẓīl: zyāda... se

Comparative: زیادہ بڑا سے = bigger than

تفضیل: سب سے زیادہ

Superlative: most of all

sab se zyāda

Superlative: سب سے + adjective = most/most of all

رنگ: سرخ نیلا سبز پیلا

Colors: red blue green yellow

rang: surkh nīlā sabz pīlā

Color adjectives — نیلا/سبز are invariable in some styles

بہت کافی تھوڑا

very enough a little

bahut kāfī thoṛā

Degree adverbs — modify adjectives and verbs

ضرور لازمی

definitely / necessarily

zarūr lāzmī

Adverbs of certainty — commonly used in everyday speech

ابھی / پہلے / بعد میں

now / before / later

abhī / pahle / bād meṃ

Temporal adverbs of relative time

یہاں وہاں کہیں

here there somewhere

yahāṃ vahāṃ kahīṃ

Spatial adverbs — کہیں = somewhere/anywhere

اتنا جتنا

this much / as much as

itnā jitnā

Correlative degree words — agree with noun gender