Talk:ихтэй

Do Mongolian adjectives also take case endings? Or is it that all/some adjectives can be used as nouns, and then as nouns can take case endings? — hippietrail (talk) 18:29, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

When words are used as adjectives, there are no case endings. A lot of nouns can also be used as adjectives. Lots of verbs can also be nouns or adjectives. Technically, the form that we are taking as the verb lemma is really a verbal noun. их (ix) can be used as a noun, but I think all of the translations of их (ix) that can be used to understand ихтэй (ixtej) are adjectives in English (rich in, endowed with, full of, very powerful). As I have said many times before, I strongly disagree with the use of parts of speech as headers. It usually works well with closely related languages such as those in Europe, but there are frequently serious difficulties with some other languages. The Russian Wiktionary has a much better system, where the definitions go under the heading of Definitions. Information about part of speech is put under a header that means Morphological and syntactic properties. But since we’re trying to force Mongolian into an English hole, we end up with difficulties like this. I don’t have an answer to the problem. I guess we could say that их (ix) is a noun, even though the English definitions are adjectival. —Stephen ^(Talk) 08:24, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

Yes we definitely have some problems with our system. There's not a lot I can do about that, but thank you for your answer which at least helps my understanding of and curiosity about Mongolian. — 60.31.140.66 16:06, 6 January 2014 (UTC)