II.2. Adjectives

The adjectives of Fergiartic decline like nouns, splitting into two patterns. The first declension of adjectives has the endings of the 2nd vocalic declension in the masculine and the neutral gender and the endings of the first in the feminine; e.g. bena, bena, benan (good):

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sg. nom.  bena bena benan pl. nom. benu bena bena
  gen. benasha benay benasha   gen. benun benun benun
  dat. beno bena beno   dat. beno benêbya beno
  acc. benan benan benan   acc. benan benan bena

The second declension of adjectives has the endings of the consonantic declension in the masculine and the neutral gender and the endings of the i-declension in the feminine; e.g. mêr, mêri, mêre (famous):

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sg. nom. mêr mêri mêre pl. nom. mêre mêre mêra
  gen. mêra mêre mêra   gen. mêrun mêrun mêrun
  dat. mêre mêre mêre   dat. marba mêriva marba
  acc. mêran mêrin mêre   acc. mêran mêrin mêra

Comparative:

Comparatives are formed by adding -tra and the endings of the first declension of adjectives to the stem. Two forms have to be distinguished: adjectives who attach -tra directly to the stem (e.g. krasa, skinny: krattra) and augmented adjectives which lose their augment in the comparative forms (e.g. magna, great: mattra). The latter is to be declined as an example:

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sg. nom. mattra mattra mattran pl. nom. mattru mattra mattra
  gen. mattrasha mattray mattrasha   gen. mattrun mattrun mattrun
  dat. mattro mattra mattro   dat. mattro mettrêbya mattro
  acc. mattran mattran mattran   acc. mattran mattran mattra

The Superlative is formed with the suffix -îsa and declines like the comparative:

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sg. nom. meyîsa meyîsa meyîsan pl. nom. meyîsu meyîsa meyîsa
  gen. meyîsasha meyîsay meyîsasha   gen. meyîsun meyîsun meyîsun
dat. meyîso meysîsa meyîso   dat. meyîso meyisêbya meyîso
  acc. meyîsan meyîsan meyîsan   acc. meyîsan meyîsan meyîsa

Some adjectives form their comparative with suppletive stems which complement each others. These are: bena - mantra - menîsa (good, better, best), megra - etitra - etîsa (many, more, most), pona - mintra - minîsa (few, fewer, fewest) and giassa - pettra - pedîsa (bad, worse, worst). Some comparative forms have prepositions as basic forms; e.g.: undra - andiarta - andrîsa (below, lower, lowest), essi - essitra - essîsa (after, later. latest).
Adjectives whose stems end in y/v or consonant clusters paraphrase their comparative forms with maye (more) and giller (most, very). Examples: ansha (fearful) - maye ansha - giller ansha; llugna (guilty) - maye llugna - giller llugna, etc.

II.3. Adverbs:

Here we have to distinguish two groups: original and derived adverbs. Original adverbs like non (now), huse (there) or ise (there, here) come from old cases or combinations of stems and particles or affixes.
Derived adverbs are formed with the suffixes -ter (obviously related to the comparative suffix -tra) and -ud (which also occurs in forms like essterud, interud).
Here -ter combines especially with augmented adjectives with the augment being lost (e.g. magne - matter, pona - poter) and with adjectives whose stem ends in a consonant or -s(s) (e.g.: salaina, salty - salainter). In these cases assimilations can take place; e.g. tovala (greedy) - tovaller, bellika (hostile) - belitter, kroina (bloody) - krointer, dess (right) - desser, etc. The second suffix, -ud- combines with stems ending in y/v or consonant clusters; e.g. kroiva (blood-red) - kroivud, sauya (smoky) - sauyud, llugna - llugnud.

The comparative of adverbs is identical to the acc. sg. neutr.; e.g. matter - mattran, salainter - salaintran. The superlative of adverbs is identical to the acc. pl. of neutral adjectives; e.g. matter - meyîsa, salainter - salinîsan.

Adjectives that paraphrase their comparative forms with maye/giller do the same as adverbs, thus: ansha - anshud - maye/giller anshud.
Note that the stems of words can be changed as in kroima - krointer - krointran - krenîsa or as above in salainter - salinîsan, etc.

The adverb of bena (good) is bentan (comparative: mantran, superlative: manîsan), of megra it's meyiollan (comparative: etitran, superlative: etîsa); pona even has two forms with the same comparative, that is potan (little) and parvan (seldom, small) with the comparative mintran and the superlative minîsa.