8.3.2. Productive morphological devices to form modifiers from non-adjectives
Relational adjectives can be derived productively by means os adding a derivataional suffix -i to nouns.
| utca-i | verekedés, | kert-i | buli |
| street-ATTR | fighting, | garden-ATTR | party |
’street fight, garden party’
Source: Examples provided by database editor (native speaker).
Relational adjectives can be derived by adding the derivational suffix -Vs to nouns. Such derived adjectives can also express that the noun is supplied with something.
| kert-es | ház, | könyv-es-bolt, | egy | könyv-es | kérdés |
| garden-ATTR | house, | book-ATTR-shop, | a | book-ATTR | question |
’house with a garden, bookstore, a question about/related to books’
Source: Examples provided by database editor (native speaker).
Productive suffixes are used to form participles, which can function as non-finite clausal modifiers: active participles are marked by the -//ó///-//ő// ending, passive participle by the -//t///-//tt// ending, and future participles by the -//andó///-//endő// ending. Here, an example is provoded for the first one.
| a | kertet | gondosan | felás-ó | munkás |
| the | garden.ACC | thoroughly | PRT.dig-PTCP | worker |
’the worker who digs up the garden thoroughly’
Source: Dékány 2021: 119.
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