Seuna adjectives

Adjectives have the form CVCV. The second vowel can be a diphthong.

Antonyms

Many adjectives come in opposite pairs. For example;-

big	jutu	small	tiji
hot	fema	cold	pona
fast	saco	slow	gade
beautiful	haue	ugly	aiho

Each of these pairs have a specific relationship to each other. In fact the first consonants of every pair are related, the first vowels of every pair is related and so on. As stated in the section "Word ordering" in "Seuna word shape", there is a proper order for listing the consonants and a proper order for listing the vowels. The relationship between the sounds is that they are reflected about the middle member of each series; about "l" for the consonant series and about "a" for the vowel series.

Not all antonyms are formed in the above manner however. Some are derived from the positive "pole". For example;-

important	mutu
unimportant	umutu

Colour terms

There are 12 colour terms.

black	hau
white	ai
red	hia
green	geu
yellow	kio
light blue	nela
dark blue	nelau
orange	suna
brown	dunu
pink	celai
purple	helau
grey	loso

List of all antonyms

beautiful	haue	ugly	aiho
wide/broad	juga	narrow	tisa
hot	fema	cold	pona
fast	saco	slow	gade
many	kaya	few	bawa
heavy	hubua	light	ikia
strong	yubu	weak	wiki
soft	uje	hard	hito
high, tall	hai	low, short	au
deep	gubu	shallow	siki
good	boi	bad	keu
exact	tiki	about	jubu
long	yau	short	wai
white	ai	black	hau
vertical	feti	horizontal	pobu
parallel	tona	perpendicular	jema
big	jutu	small	tiji

The last three pairs produce three more adjective by combining together and prefixing u.

utoje = neither parallel or perpendicular

ufepo = sloping, inclined

ujuti = about average

The comparative and the superlative

big	jutu	beautiful	haue
bigger	jutus	more beautiful	haues
biggest	jutustu	most beautiful	haueste

Note that the final vowel of the superlative is the penultimate vowel repeated.

Verbs from adjectives

to expand	jutumbwa
to increase	jutumba

Alonebwa is the verb "become" and ba is the verb "do". The "m" is the nasal that is used for making compounds.

Adjectives and nouns

For antonyms, the "positive" member of a pair is used as a noun of state. The noun is formed by adding un.

tujuun = size haueun = beauty

The vowel strings in the above look quite daulting. However, using an apostrophe to represent a glottal stop, they are tuju'un and hau'e'un

Compounding

jutu kloga = size of shoe .... general, big/small/medium etc. kloganjutu = shoe size .... thinking about a specific measuring system i.e. European, etc. etc.

jutu poibo = size of mountain .... general, big/small/medium etc. poibonjutu = mountain size .... thinking about a specific measuring system i.e. a monro, etc. etc.

Index

1. Introduction to Seuna
2. Seuna : Chapter 1
3. Seuna word shape
4. The script of Seuna
5. Seuna sentence structure
6. Seuna pronouns
7. Seuna nouns
8. Seuna verbs (1)
9. Seuna adjectives
10. Seuna demonstratives
11. Seuna verbs (2)
12. Asking a question in Seuna
13. Seuna relative clauses
14. Seuna verbs (3)
15. Methods for deriving words in Seuna
16. List of all Seuna derivational affixes
17. Numbers in Seuna
18. Naming people in Seuna
19. The Seuna calendar
20. Seuna units