What's good to know about relative adjectives in Bosnian?

Let's take a closer look at the second type of adjectives in Bosnian, the relative adjectives.

Relative adjectives describe the relations between animate/inanimate beings.
The English language would tend to use several nouns to describe relations like this – but Bosnian is handling this job with the help of adjectives.

Relative adjectives can be derived from nouns by adding an ending

(e.g.: -ski; -nji).

For example:

morski vazduh
(sea air)

gradski autobus
(city bus)

Kakav je bio tvoj studentski život?
(What was your student life like?)

The related adjectives occur only in the certain form, are declined, but they cannot be put in forms of comparison.

Possessive adjectives

A subcategory of relative adjectives are possessive adjectives:

Possessive adjectives are formed from nouns.
There are male, female and substantive forms.
These have to be declined.

For example:

Harunova sestra
(Harun’s sister)

Almina kuča
(Almina’s house)

Semirov broj mobitela
(Semir’s phone number)

Bosnian Grammar

Introduction

📂 Bosnian Grammar in a nutshell

🌍 Bosnian language

📖 Bosnian alphabet

Nouns

📕 Bosnian Nouns

📕 Building the plural

→ Exceptions for masculine nouns

→ Exceptions for feminine nouns

→ Exceptions for neuter nouns

📕 7 cases

📕 Types of declension

Adjectives & Adverbs

Verbs

📗 Infinitive

📗 Aspect

📗 Present tense: biti (to be)

📗 Present tense: htjeti (will)

Pronouns

📙 Personal pronouns

📙 Possessive pronouns

📙 Demonstrative pronouns

📙 Interrogative pronouns

Word order & Sentences

📓 Basic structure

📓 Negation

📓 Clitics

Useful information

🔢 Numbers 0 to 1.500

📅 Days of the week

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