Pengertian Adjective dan Order of Adjective Dalam Bahasa Inggris beserta Contohnya

Pengertian Adjective dan Order of Adjective beserta Contohnya – Sebelumnya KBI telah memberikan artikel tentang Parts of Speech. Anda sudah mengertikan 8 bagian parts of speech? Untuk kali ini KBI akan memberikan penjelasan dari salah satu bagian parts of speech. Setelah sebelumnya KBI membahas Noun (kata benda) kali ini KBI akan membahas materi adjective (kata sifat).

Adjective adalah kata yang digunakan untuk melengkapi atau menjelaskan noun (kata benda), atau pronoun (kata ganti orang/benda). Adjective bisa ditempatkan didepan noun (attributive), dibelakang noun (postpositive), atau setelah noun dengan disela verbs/to be (predicative). Berikut ini KBI berikan contohnya.

She likes yellow flower in my garden. (Dia menyukai bunga kuning di kebunku.)
My friend tells me that Eva is beautiful. (Temanku memberitahuku bahwa Eva cantik.)
It will be a bad thing in my life. (Itu akan menjadi hal buruk di hidupku.)
He has something special for me. (Dia mempunyai sesuatu yang spesial untukku.)
Mr. bond is very brave person. (Tuan Bond adalah orang yang sangat berani.)

Dalam bahasa inggris adjective mempunyai aturan urutan penulisan (Order of adjective) yang diurutkan berdasarkan kategori. Secara umum, urutan adjective (adjective order) adalah:

Quantity or number
Quality or opinion
Size
Age
Shape
Color
Proper adjective (often nationality, other place of origin, or material)
Purpose or qualifier

Contoh:

My mother feeds two big old black bears. (size – age – color)
Bella is a smart young Indonesian girl. (opinion – age – origin)
I brought three new red and white books. (quantity – age – color)
Dom wear a pair of brown leather jacket. (color – material)
Rendang is a delicious Indonesian food. (opinion – origin)

Untuk menambah perbendaharaan kata (vocabulary), KBI memberikan daftar adjective words berikut ini.


Able	Cheap	Distinct	Happy	Open	Tiny
Adorable	Cheerful	Dizzy	Hard	Orange	Tired
Adventurous	Clean	Drab	Healthy	Pale	Tough
Acidic	Clear	Dry	Heavy	Perfect	Tremendous
Aggressive	Closed	Dull	Helpful	Pleasant	Ugly
Agreeable	Cloudy	Eager	Helpless	Polite	Unequal
Alert	Clumsy	Early	High	Poor	Unhealthy
Alive	Cluttered	Easy	Ignorant	Quick	Unique
Amazing	Cold	Elated	Impolite	Quiet	Unknown
Amused	Colorful	Elegant	Important	Rapid	Unnatural
Ancient	Comfortable	Embarrassed	Incredible	Rare	Unruly
Ashamed	Concerned	Empty	Intelligent	Real	Untidy
Attractive	Cool	Enchanted	Interesting	Red	Unused
Average	Cooperative	Energetic	Jealous	Rich	Unusual
Awesome	Coordinated	Envious	Juicy	Sad	Unwieldy
Awful	Courageous	Equal	Kind	Safe	Upset
Bad	Crazy	Even	Lame	Scary	Used
Beautiful	Creepy	Evil	Last	Second	Useful
Beneficial	Crooked	Excellent	Late	Serious	Useless
Better	Crowded	Excited	Lazy	Shiny	Valuable
Big	Cuddly	Fair	Light	Short	Victorious
Bite-sized	Cumbersome	Fast	Little	Shrill	Violet
Bitter	Curly	Fat	Long	Shy	Warm
Black	Curvy	Fluffy	Loose	Sick	Watery
Blushing	Cute	Foolish	Loud	Silent	Wealthy
Boiling	Damaged	Frail	Lovely	Silky	Weak
Bouncy	Dangerous	Free	Low	Silly	Weary
Brave	Dark	Fresh	Lucky	Simple	Wet
Breakable	Dazzling	Friendly	Marvelous	Tall	While
Brief	Dead	Frightened	Massive	Tame	Whole
Bright	Deep	Full	Mellow	Tan	Wild
Broken	Defiant	Funny	Messy	Tart	Windy
Brown	Delicious	Giant	Modern	Tasty	Witty
Bumpy	Delightful	Gigantic	Mysterious	Tender	Wonderful
Bustling	Delirious	Glamorous	Natural	Tense	Wooden
Busy	Descriptive	Glorious	Naughty	Terrific	Worried
Calculating	Deserted	Good	Near	Testy	Wrong
Calm	Dreary	Gorgeous	New	Thankful	Yellow
Careful	Different	Graceful	Next	Terrific	Yummy
Careless	Difficult	Gray	Nice	Thin	Zany
Charming	Dirty	Green	Noisy	Thirsty	Zealous
Chubby		Handy	Old	Tight	Zesty

Adjective juga dibagi menjadi beberapa macam. Dan penjelasan lebihnya akan diberikan pada postingan berikutnya. Semoga artikel Pengertian Adjective dan Order of Adjective beserta Contohnya dapat membantu dan bermanfaat bagi Anda. Terimakasih.