Modern Hindi Grammar - Indian Institute of Language Studies (IILS)

4. SYNTAX

some adjectives are bound forms and their surface form is
determined by the number and gender of a following noun. In nouns
the gender is marked inherently; (4) adjectives usually precede a
head noun and occur in the attributive position. The word order of
adjectives with respect to other constituents of an adjective phrase is
as follows: determiner - quantifier - adjective - noun.

3. yao dao laMbaI kmaIja,oM
   ye do lambi: kami:zẽ
   these-f two long-fp shirts
   these two long shirts

There are two types of adjectives: those which do not take a
complement, and those which do take a complement. Adjectives like
maOlaa m ́la: dirty do not take a complement, whereas adjectives like
tOyaar taya:r ready do take it. The latter type of adjectives with their
complements occurs attributively.

4. kpD,o Qaaonao ko ilae tOyaar laD,ka
   kapre dhone ke liye t ́ya:r larka:
   clothes wash-inf-obl for ready boy
   the boy who is ready to wash clothes

4a. tOyaar laD,ka
t ́ya:r larka:

4b. laD,ka tOyaar hO.
larka: t ́ya:r h ́.
The boy is ready.

Adjectives can be either stative (AcCa accha: good, sauMdr sundar
beautiful) or non-stative (p`sanna prasann ‘happy’, naaraja, na:ra:z
‘angry’).

The adverbs of degree in their basic form can serve as modifiers of
adjectives.

5a. yah bahut baD,a/CaoTa poD, hO.
yeh bahut bara:/chota: per h ́.
this very big/ small tree is
This is a very big/small tree.