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===Adjectives=== Siwi adjectives [[Agreement (linguistics)|agree]] with their heads (or their referents) in gender and number, using a subset of the same affixes given above for nouns; for example:<ref>{{harvcoltxt|Souag|2013|p=91}}</ref> {| class="wikitable" |- ! colspan="2" | ! small ! mute |- ! rowspan="2" | masc ! singular | {{lang|siz|aħəkkik}} | {{lang|siz|ləbkəm}} |- ! plural | {{lang|siz|iħəkkikən}} | {{lang|siz|lbəkmən}} |- ! rowspan="2" | fem ! singular | {{lang|siz|taħəkkəkt}} | {{lang|siz|tləbkəmt}} |- ! plural | {{lang|siz|tiħəkkiken}} | {{lang|siz|təlbəkmen}} |} However, agreement is not always complete. Feminine plural nouns often show masculine plural agreement.<ref>{{harvcoltxt|Souag|2013|p=92}}</ref><ref>{{harvcoltxt|Schiattarella|2016|p=42}}</ref> Adjectives may be marked with a suffix ''-a'',<ref>{{harvcoltxt|Vycichy|2005|p=213}}</ref><ref>{{harvcoltxt|Souag|2013|pp=93–94}}</ref> whose function, possibly aspectual, has not yet been conclusively established. Gradable adjectives with no more than three root consonants form an invariant comparative based on the consonantal template ''(ə)CCəC'', originally borrowed from Arabic: thus {{lang|siz|aħəkkik}} 'small' yields {{lang|siz|əħkək}} 'smaller', {{lang|siz|agzal}} 'short' yields {{lang|siz|gzəl}} 'smaller', {{lang|siz|aẓəy}} 'bitter' yields {{lang|siz|ẓya}} 'more bitter'.<ref>{{harvcoltxt|Walker|1921|p=212}}</ref><ref>{{harvcoltxt|Vycichl|2005|p=212}}</ref><ref>{{harvcoltxt|Souag|2013|pp=102–104}}</ref> Adding a suffix {{lang|siz|-hŭm}} to this in turn yields the superlative.
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