Adjectives

The stressed suffix ِی- turns a noun into an adjective. These adjectives, like a large number of other adjectives, can quite often be used as nouns: Besides this suffix, the word اهل is used to describe geographical affiliation. The same is true for the adverb کجا. The word پیش means 'previous' or 'last' if used as an adjective in an اضافه construction : The same is true with بعد, which means 'next' or 'following' as an adjective: