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Compounding and shortcutting
In Quertílian, compounding is very often used to shorten long names of places, instruments, processes, historical events, sciences, etc.,...
Gradation
In Quertílian, adjectives, some adverbs and numerical anaphora of identity can be gradated. There are five levels of gradation: For...
Derivational suffixes
Here are some of the most important derivational suffixes of Quertílian. -ér (shortens the preceding vowel) - someone who does or is...
Derivation
Nominalization The following verbal nominalizers are used to create nouns from verbs. rark - to fight rark - a fight zirark - a weapon...
Diminutives and augmentatives
Islandish has a scale of 2 diminutives and 2 augmentatives, which express the size of a noun. The so called II. augmentative and II....
Verbal adjectives
There are the following categories of verbal adjectives: active adjectives, where the noun is the subject of an action present...
Nominal derivational suffixes
Here is a list of the most important nominalizers in Islandish. Please note we use è for the epenthetic e, and j and jj for softening .
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