Qualities
What is someone or something like?
Significado
A quality tells us what someone or something is like. It can describe size, color, shape, age, or character. Languages use adjectives, verbs, or phrases for this, and some have no separate class of adjectives. State words highlights a current or resulting condition, while Qualities focuses on a feature of the person or thing.
Como identificar
Look for a word or phrase that describes what a person or thing is like, rather than how an action happens.
Na tua língua materna
Adjectives usually follow the noun and match it in grammatical gender, its masculine or feminine class, and in singular or plural. A quality stated about the subject often uses ser, a linking verb that connects the subject to its description. Some adjectives can come before the noun, and the position can change the meaning, as with velho amigo and amigo velho.
A Marina comprou duas blusas amarelas.
Amarelas follows the noun and matches its feminine plural form.
Este pão é macio.
O Davi é um velho amigo.
Before amigo, velho means longstanding; amigo velho would normally describe an elderly friend.
Na tua língua de aprendizagem
English usually places a describing adjective before the noun. An adjective can also follow be or another verb such as seem to say what the subject is like. Adjectives do not change form for gender or number, either before a noun or after a verb.
They live in a small house.
The adjective comes before the noun.
Our neighbors are friendly.
Friendly stays unchanged even though neighbors is plural.
This bag is heavy.
The adjective follows is to describe the bag.
Learners whose language usually places adjectives after nouns may copy that order into English. Learners whose language gives adjectives plural forms may add -s to an English adjective.