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Escarabajo
Hi,
Today I've learned that any Coleoptera bug es un escarabajo. Is there a way to pinpoint the specific way of life? I mean, making balls of dung for a living? Escarabajo de mierda is my first guess, probably incorrect ![]() |
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A dictionary gives three different ways to say 'dung beetle.' In order, according to number of hits on the internet:
escarabajo pelotero escarabajo estercolero escarabajo coprófrago The Spanish word for any beetle is escarabajo. In English, we differentiate the various beetles by adding a descriptive adjective - Japanese beetle, June beetle, Scarab (beetle)/dung beetle, African Goliath beetle, etc. They do the same thing in Spanish. |
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Oh no, Sancho. There are also possessive adjectives (my, your, ...), demonstrative adjectives (this, these, ...), ordinal adjectives (first, second, ...), and I'm sure I'm forgetting some others.
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The examples you cite don't alter the fact that that an adjective is always descriptive and descriptive adjective is still a tautology.
"My, your" and "This and these" are pronouns.
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Me ayudaríais si me hicierais el favor de corregir mis errores. Last edited by Sancho Panther; December 22, 2019 at 05:24 AM. |
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@Sancho: Descriptive adjectives is correct terminology (see here).
That site also gives examples of possessive adjectives, demonstrative adjectives, quantitative adjectives, distributive adjectives, and interrogative adjectives (the three English articles are also listed). You'll find many sites that type English adjectives by function. The number varies. Some use different terminology. Some classify possessive adjectives, demonstrative adjectives, quantitative adjectives, distributive adjectives, and articles as determiners. But even then I found them saying, "determiners, and other adjectives, precede the noun they modify," effectively lumping all of the types into one group. No matter how you slice it, not all adjectives are alike. So, a term that describes them -a descriptive adjective- is often pressed into service. Last edited by Rusty; December 26, 2019 at 07:29 AM. |
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