[HARRISON ] HAIDA GRAMMAR 139 
2, Qualitative adjectives denote the quality of the nouns, as : 
Nung itlinga kutungas, Kwutungé skéla. 
A man wise.“ Heart  unclean. 
Nung chada zuéjing. Shantlan daunga. 
A woman tall. Day bad, 
Kodets gunga. Statilthdou là yuan. 
Coat thick. Stockings good very. 
3. When we wish to distinguish anything according to its number 
either definitely, indefinitely, or distributively, we use the quantitative 
adjective, as : 
Lthaada klalth, ten men. This denotes the definite number.  Kôdets 
gu hutsa, a few coats. This denotes the indefinite number.  Dalung 
wautliwan, a/l of you. This is used distributively. 
Haramples. 
Nung chada daunga. Takioun 1a. 
A woman bad. Carpet good. 
Kôgina kutungas. Kil kladska. 
Book wise. Voice strong. 
Hangi skéla. Kwutungé skwuna. 
Face dirty. _ Heart clean. 
Chada, takioun, kégina, kil, hangi and kwutungé are nouns, and 
daunga, la, kutungas, kladska, skéla, and skwuna are adjectives denot- 
ing the quality or importance of each noun. 
Haamples. 
Laou nung habutsu daunga iching. 
He a boy wicked is. 
Itil lth häada kutungas kum kin däunga istié da kwudungängung. 
We the men wise not thing wicked do to wish. 
Talung güshou ginggangan eds kwoyadagungung. 
We talk worthless are loving. 
Thus nung hahutsu daunga, Ith hadda kutungas, and gishou ging- 
gangan eds are used to denote the quality of the pronouns laou, itt! and 
talung. 
4. COMPARISON. 
There are three usual degrees of comparison, the positive, the com- 
parative and the superlative. 
A. COMPARATIVE DEGREE. 
The comparative is formed by adding édung to the stem or root, 
POSITIVE. CoMPARATIVE. 
Dauaga, Bad. Daunga édung, Worse. 
La, Good. La édung, Better. 
Jing, Far. Jinga édung, Farther. 
Jingelgung, Late. Jingélth édung, Later. 
Houla, Sweet. Houla édung, Sweeter. 
Hougut, Bitter. Hougut édung, More bitter. 
