The IMS Tagset considers only the attributive and non-attributive use of adjectives. Adjectives which are used predicatively or as adverbs do not differ in their inflectional shape and are therefore not distinguished. Nominalised adjectives are annotated as common nouns (see feature Inflection of adjectives).
| Attribute | Value | Ge. example | Ge. tag |
| Use | attributive | (ein) schnelles (Auto) | ADJA:Pos.Neut.Nom.Sg.Mix |
| non-attributive | (es ist) schnell | ADJNA | |
| (es fährt) schnell | ADJNA | ||