Datapoint Cape Verdean Creole of Brava/Gender agreement of adnominal adjectives

Only a few adjectives optionally agree with nouns, particularly those that modify a human's physical trait, such as colour (branku 'white (masc.)', branka 'white (feminine)'; preta 'black (fem.)'; pretu 'black (masc.)'), height (altu 'tall (masc.)', alta 'tall (fem.)') or nationality (kabuverdianu 'Cape Verdean (masc.)', kabuverdiana 'Cape Verdean (fem.)').

Values

Only few adjectives agree with the noun

Example 31-81:
un mininu bunitu
un
a
mininu
handsome
bunitu
boy
a handsome boy

Source: Baptista 2002: 66

Example 31-82:
un minina bunita
un
a
minina
girl
bunita
beautiful
a beautiful girl
Confidence:
Very certain