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Learning the Scottish 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 Scottish language. But first we need to know what the role of Adjectives is in the structure of the grammar in Scottish.
Scottish Adjectives are words that describe or modify another person or thing in the sentence. Here are some examples:
| English Adjectives | Scottish Adjectives |
|---|---|
| adjectives | Adjecti'es |
| a green tree | a green cabre |
| a tall building | a taa buildin' |
| a very old man | a huir uv a auld cheil |
| the old red house | th' auld red hoose |
| a very nice friend | a huir uv a braw mukker |
Notice the structure of the Adjectives in Scottish.
Below is a list of the Adjectives, Colors, Shapes, Sizes in Scottish placed in a table. Memorizing this table will help you add very useful and important words to your Scottish vocabulary.
| English Adjectives | Scottish Adjectives |
|---|---|
| colors | colors |
| black | black |
| blue | blue |
| brown | broon |
| gray | gray |
| green | green |
| orange | orange |
| purple | purple |
| red | red |
| white | white |
| yellow | yella' |
| sizes | sizes |
| big | big |
| deep | deep |
| long | lang |
| narrow | narraw |
| short | cuttie |
| small | wee |
| tall | taa |
| thick | thick |
| thin | thin |
| wide | wide |
| shapes | shapes |
| circular | circular |
| straight | straecht |
| square | squaur |
| triangular | triangular |
| tastes | tastes |
| bitter | heavy |
| fresh | caller |
| salty | salty |
| sour | soor |
| spicy | spicy |
| sweet | sweit |
| qualities | qualities |
| bad | bad |
| clean | clean |
| dark | mirk |
| difficult | difficult |
| dirty | grottie |
| dry | dry |
| easy | easy |
| empty | boss |
| expensive | expensife |
| fast | fest |
| foreign | foreign |
| full | foo |
| good | guid |
| hard | stoaner |
| heavy | heavy |
| inexpensive | inexpensife |
| light | lecht |
| local | local |
| new | new |
| noisy | noisy |
| old | auld |
| powerful | powerful |
| quiet | whieest |
| correct | correct |
| slow | slaw |
| soft | soft |
| very | huir uv a |
| weak | weak |
| wet | dreich |
| wrong | wrang |
| young | yoong |
| quantities | quantities |
| few | few |
| little | wee |
| many | mony |
| much | much |
| part | part |
| some | some |
| a few | puckle |
| whole | whole |
Adjectives, Colors, Shapes, Sizes have a very important role in Scottish. Once you're done with the Scots Adjectives, you might want to check the rest of our Scottish lessons here: Learn Scottish. Don't forget to bookmark this page.
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