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grammatical genders: masculine, feminine and neuter. The
morphological category of gender in Ukrainian is identified either
through separate inflexions of the adjunct or through the inflexion
of the finite form of the verb that conjugates with the noun.
In present-day English no gender distinctions of the kind
are possible. Absence of morphological category of gender in
English is easy to be proved by the unchanged attributive adjuncts
to nouns which have this category in Ukrainian.
The adjective “great” does not express only gender
distinction of the English head nouns “emperor”, “heroine” or
“desire” as it is in Ukrainian

2. Adjective as a Part of Speech in English and Ukrainian
Languages

In the contrasted languages adjectives are subdivided into
two classes: qualitative and relative. This division of adjective in
both languages is conventional.
The allomorphic feature can be found in English, it is the
existence of quantitative adjective: little, few, much, many. The
Ukrainian language does not have such adjectives and the
corresponding meanings are rendered (кілька, декілька).
The Ukrainian language in its turn possesses a peculiar
group of adjective, not present in English. They are possessive
adjectives. They express belonging of some object to this or that
person or creature, from the name of whom they are created:
батьків, учителева, Танин.
As for the structure of adjectives they fall in English and
Ukrainian into three far form equal by their number groups:
1) basic (simple): big, bold, clean/варт, рад;
2) derivative: rural, capable;
3) compound: unlike basic and derivative ones they are
characterized in the contrasted languages by some structural or
lexical morphemes.

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