Template talk:ms-adj

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After reading the Tatabahasa Dewan (a book of Malay grammar), I had discovered many things about Malay lately. One of the things were Malay's comparison degree. The degrees are Positive, comparative and superlative.

• Comparative is divided to:

  Equative. Use the prefix se- / س- + adjective. (secantik)

  Comparative: Use the word lebih / لبيه (more) or kurang / کورڠ (less) (lebih cantik or kurang cantik)

• Superlative. There are several ways but the one that is most suitable is:

  teR- / تر- + adjective (tercantik)

  paling / ڤاليڠ (most) + adjective (paling cantik)

  adjective + sekali / سکالي (cantik sekali)

  ter- + amat or sangat + adjective (teramat cantik or tersangat cantik)

  amat or sangat or sungguh + adjective + sekali (amat cantik sekali or sangat cantik sekali or sungguh cantik sekali)

  se- + adjective reduplication + noun (e.g. secantik-cantik bunga)

I was gonna copy paste from {{cy-adj}} but since Malay has 2 scripts it's kinda difficult for me to do it. I was wondering it would be like this

1. For Rumi script: ms-adj (Jawi spelling چنتيق, equative secantik, comparative lebih cantik, superlative tercantik)
2. For Jawi script: ms-adj (Rumi spelling cantik, equative سچنتيق, comparative لبيه چنتيق, superlative ترسچنتيق)

--Malaysiaboy (talk) 11:56, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

Wait, you claim Malay as your native language and you only recently "discovered" that it has gradable adjectives?

But leaving that aside, adding support for these forms to the headword seems easy, but I am less sure if this is a good idea. Are these superlative forms completely regular and interchangeable? We had a similar case with Template talk:pt-adj-infl#RFDO discussion: November 2014–January 2015 recently where a template was nominated for deletion because it only offered analytic forms equivalent to English "more"/"most". This too looks like the sort of information that should rather be in a grammar appendix — if we had those. — Keφr 11:31, 20 January 2015 (UTC)

1. Actually I "found out" not "discover". Sorry for that.

2. About the superlative form, all of the above can be used but the most common one is teR-

--Malaysiaboy (talk) 07:34, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

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Template:ms-adj and Template:ms-adjective

I created this Template:ms-adjective last year oblivious to the existence of Template:ms-adj and now would like to bring to y’all’s attention(s) that it should definitely be merged with the latter. Desaccointier^(talk) 15:45, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

 Done {{ms-adjective}} now redirects to {{ms-adj}}. KevinUp (talk) 16:02, 5 January 2019 (UTC)