Yoruba Adjectives
Learning the Yoruba Adjectives is very important because its structure is used in every day conversation. The more you master it the more you get closer to mastering the Yoruba language. But first we need to know what the role of Adjectives is in the structure of the grammar in Yoruba.
Yoruba Adjectives are words that describe or modify another person or thing in the sentence. Here are some examples:
| English Adjectives | Yoruba Adjectives |
| adjectives | |
| a green tree | Igi alawo ewe |
| a tall building | Ile giga |
| a very old man | Arugbo okunrin |
| the old red house | Ile atijo alawo eje |
| a very nice friend | Ore todara pupo |
As you can see from the example above, the structure of the Adjectives in Yoruba has a logical pattern. Locate the Adjectives above and see how it works with the rest of the sentence in Yoruba.
List of Adjectives in Yoruba
Below is a list of the Adjectives, Colors, Shapes, Sizes in Yoruba placed in a table. Memorizing this table will help you add very useful and important words to your Yoruba vocabulary.
| English Adjectives | Yoruba Adjectives |
| colors | |
| black | Dudu |
| green | Alawo ewe |
| orange | Alawo osan |
| red | Alawo eje |
| white | Alawo efun |
| yellow | Alawo oorun |
| sizes | |
| big | Nla |
| deep | Jin |
| long | Gun or gigun |
| narrow | Tinrin |
| short | Kuru or kukuru |
| small | Kekere |
| tall | Ga |
| thick | Nipon |
| thin | Tirin |
| wide | Gbooro |
| straight | Tooro |
| tastes | |
| bitter | Koro or Kikoro |
| fresh | Tutu |
| salty | Iyo ja |
| sour | Kikan or kan |
| spicy | Alata or otaa |
| sweet | Adun or didun |
| qualities | |
| bad | Ibaje |
| clean | Mo |
| dark | Okuku or dudu |
| difficult | Ole |
| dirty | Idoti |
| dry | Gbigbe |
| easy | Irorun |
| empty | korofo |
| expensive | won or owon |
| fast | aawe |
| foreign | ajoji |
| full | ekun |
| good | rere |
| hard | lile |
| heavy | wuwo |
| inexpensive | ponkulowo |
| light | fele |
| new | titun |
| noisy | ariwo |
| old | arugbo |
| powerful | alagbara |
| quiet | Idake je |
| correct | beeni |
| soft | ro |
| very | gan |
| weak | re e |
| wet | tutu |
| wrong | beeko |
| young | omode or odo |
| quantities | |
| few | die |
| little | die |
| many | opo or pupo |
| much | opo or pupo |
| part | ara or eya ara |
| some | awon |
| a few | awon die |
| whole | odidi |
Adjectives, Colors, Shapes, Sizes have a very important role in Yoruba, therefore they need very special attention. Once you're done with Yoruba Adjectives, you might want to check the rest of our Yoruba lessons here: Learn Yoruba. Don't forget to bookmark this page.