Property Label
What kind? What is it like?
Maana
A quality or feature attached to a participant: size, color, shape, age, material, character, or type.
Jinsi ya kuitambua
Find words that describe a thing.
Mifano
red|big|old|wooden|smart
a red car|an old friend|a difficult question
The red car is fast.
Visual guide
PROPERTY + THING = described thing red + car -> red car old + friend -> old friend Ask: what kind / like?
Property slot can vary: before noun: red car after noun: car red agreement: red-F car-F link word: car is red verb-like: car red-VERB
Mtazamo wa lugha
Katika lugha yako ya kwanza
English normally places property adjectives before nouns and does not inflect them for gender or number.
I bought a red car.
red = property label
Katika lugha unayojifunza
Property labels are typically adjectives that agree in gender and number; position can change nuance.
una casa blanca / un coche blanco
a white house / a white car
Learners often forget adjective agreement or place adjectives in English order too mechanically.
Same block, different coding
Both languages use this block strongly, but they signal it differently. Focus on form changes, not only meaning.