Adjectives.
| ill, painful, sakit. cheap, morah. dear, mahal. wide, luas. astonished, heiran. | thin, kurus. fat, gumok. illustrious, mulia. narrow, simpit. glad, suka. |
Verbs.
| to see, lihat. to demand, minta. to be able, buleh. to hear, dengar. | to play, main. to look, tengok. to enter, masok to order, suroh. |
On Intensives.— To express an intensive degree the particle ter is prefixed to adjectives and adverbs; as ter-bĕsar, very large; ter-kuasa, very powerful; ter-lebeh, most; ter-lalu, excessively; ter-lampau, surpassing; ter-amat, most exceedingly.
The adjective may also be intensified by duplication; as ikan yang besar-besar, great big fish; burong kechil-kechil, very small birds; nĕgri jauh-jauh, far-distant lands; dia harti baik-baik, he understands very well.
The following adverbs are of frequent use in heightening the sense of words:—
| baniak, very. amat, exceedingly. sangat, very. sakali, quite, most. ter-lebeh, most. |
ter-lalu, excessively.
ter-langsong, ter-lampau, surpassingly. ter-amat, most exceedingly. |
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ter-langsong, ter-lampau, | surpassingly. |
All of these precede the positive except sakali, which invariably follows it. Amat and sangat are also sometimes placed after the adjective which they qualify.
It is common to use more than one of these words with the same adjective, just as we say “the very most.”