20 Examples of Cardinal Adjectives

Cardinal Adjectives

The cardinal adjectives they are a type of numeral adjectives that express quantity, that is, they are scalar numbers. When they are mentioned, the receiver knows how many nouns are being talked about. For example: four, two, one hundred.

In general, adjectives express characteristics related to subjective descriptions about the noun to which they modify, the cardinal adjectives provide an exact data: the quantity. For example: Surplus three lemons.

Characteristics of cardinal adjectives

Cardinal adjectives have a characteristic that they do not share with any other class of adjectives. In the Spanish language, the agreement regarding gender and number it is done between the verb and the noun, and then from the modifiers of each of them.

However, when it comes to cardinal adjectives, the question is modified and it is the adjectives that force the noun (and the verb) in terms of number. If the adjective comes to modify the question of quantity, it will be he who determines the number of the sentence. Therefore, they will always precede the noun. For example:

Numeral adjectives

The numeral adjectives are those that provide information on the quantity or distribution of the noun: they are characterized by expressing a numerical quantity in their name.

Numeral adjectives can be cardinal (when they express quantity), ordinal (when they express order), multiples (when they express multiplicity) or partitive (when they express partition).

Examples of sentences with cardinal adjectives

1. Came and found a computer that was not his.
2. We gave you three opportunities and you missed them.
3. I only want two Pizza slices, I had breakfast an hour ago.
4. I heard that with the inheritance money he bought a car.
5. Four seats, please.
6. We only accept these five Credit cards.
7. Never in my life had I seen a thing like that.
8. This service is a disaster, this morning they should have arrived twelve boxes.
9. Don't buy animals, adopt one.
10. The largest stadium in our city has capacity for twenty two thousand people.
11. We will celebrate that it fulfills eighty years.
12. Did you really go to the movies and see two movies in a row?
13. Due to the strike at the airport, they had to reschedule thirty-two flights.
14. Every Thursday I invite my seven nephews home.
15. I have two weddings this month, but I don't have a dress.
16. Four heads are better than one.
17. Have three brothers and each of them has two children.
18. For my birthday I want a drums.
19. They are Fourty students and only thirteen they passed the exam.
20. This end of the year we will a travel all over Europe.

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