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Learning the Sinhala Adjectives is very important because its structure is used in every day conversation. The more you master it the more you get closer to mastering the Sinhala language. But first we need to know what the role of Adjectives is in the structure of the grammar in Sinhala.
Sinhala Adjectives are words that describe or modify another person or thing in the sentence. Here are some examples:
English Adjectives | Sinhala Adjectives |
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adjectives | nāma viśēṣaṇa - නාම විශේෂණ |
a green tree | kol̠a pāṭa gasak - කොළ පාට ගසක් |
a tall building | usa goḍanægillak - උස ගොඩනැගිල්ලක් |
a very old man | itā mahal̠ū minisek - ඉතා මහළු මිනිසෙක් |
the old red house | pæraṇi ratū nivasa - පැරණි රතු නිවස |
a very nice friend | itā hon̆d mitūrek - ඉතා හොඳ මිතුරෙක් |
Notice the structure of the Adjectives in Sinhala.
Below is a list of the Adjectives, Colors, Shapes, Sizes in Sinhala placed in a table. Memorizing this table will help you add very useful and important words to your Sinhala vocabulary.
English Adjectives | Sinhala Adjectives |
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colors | pāṭa - පාට |
black | kal̠ū - කළු |
blue | nil - නිල් |
brown | dūm̆būrū - දුඹුරු |
gray | al̠ū - අළු |
green | kol̠a - කොළ |
orange | tæm̆bili - තැඹිලි |
purple | dam - දම් |
red | ratū - රතු |
white | sūdū - සුදු |
yellow | kaha - කහ |
sizes | pramāṇayan - ප්රමාණයන් |
big | lokū - ලොකු |
deep | gæm̆būrū - ගැඹුරු |
long | diga - දිග |
narrow | paṭū - පටු |
short | koṭa - කොට |
small | kūḍā - කුඩා |
tall | usa - උස |
thick | mahata - මහත |
thin | sihin - සිහින් |
wide | pūl̠ūl - පුළුල් |
shapes | hæḍayan - හැඩයන් |
circular | vattaya - වෘත්තය |
straight | r̥jū - ඍජු |
square | samacatūrasraya - සමචතුරස්රය |
triangular | trikōṇaya - ත්රිකෝණය |
tastes | rasayan - රසයන් |
bitter | titta - තිත්ත |
fresh | nævūm - නැවුම් |
salty | lūṇū miśra - ලුණු මිශ්ර |
sour | æm̆būl - ඇඹුල් |
spicy | rasavat - රසවත් |
sweet | pæṇirasa - පැණිරස |
qualities | gūṇa - ගුණ |
bad | naraka - නරක |
clean | pirisidū - පිරිසිදු |
dark | an̆dūrū - අඳුරු |
difficult | amārū - අමාරු |
dirty | kiliṭi - කිලිටි |
dry | viyal̠i - වියළි |
easy | pahasū - පහසු |
empty | his - හිස් |
expensive | mila adhika - මිල අධික |
fast | vēgavat - වේගවත් |
foreign | vidēśīya - විදේශීය |
full | pirūṇū - පිරුණු |
good | hon̆d - හොඳ |
hard | dæḍi - දැඩි |
heavy | bara - බර |
inexpensive | lāba - ලාබ |
light | sæhællū - සැහැල්ලු |
local | dēśīya - දේශීය |
new | alūt - අලුත් |
noisy | ghōṣā sahita - ඝෝෂා සහිත |
old | pæraṇi - පැරණි |
powerful | balavat - බලවත් |
quiet | nihan̆ḍa - නිහඬ |
correct | niværadi - නිවැරදි |
slow | man̆d vēga - මඳ වේග |
soft | madū - මෘදු |
very | itā - ඉතා |
weak | dūrvala - දුර්වල |
wet | teta - තෙත |
wrong | væradi - වැරදි |
young | tarūṇa - තරුණ |
quantities | pramāṇayan - ප්රමාණයන් |
few | svalpa - ස්වල්ප |
little | sūl̠ū - සුළු |
many | bohō - බොහෝ |
much | bohō - බොහෝ |
part | koṭasa - කොටස |
some | samahara - සමහර |
a few | sūl̠ū - සුළු |
whole | sampūrṇa - සම්පූර්ණ |
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