VITIAN GRAMMAR. 



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ndua 



rua 



tolu 



va 



lima 



ono 



vitu 



walu 



tini 



NUMERALS. 



one. .tini ka ndua eleven, 



two. tini lea rua twelve, &c. 



three. rua sagavulu twenty, 



four. tolu sayavulu thirty, &c. 



five. ndrau hundred, 



six. rua ndrau or rua a ndrau two hundred, 



seven. tolu ndrau three hundred, 



eight. undolu thousand, 



nine. rua undolu or ma a undolu two thousand, 

 ten. 



It is seldom that the natives require a numeral above a thousand, since for those 

 articles which they possess in large quantities, they have the collective terms mentioned 

 on page 173. Thus for " ten thousand cocoa-nuts," they would say, a koro e undolu, 

 or a undolu na koro, i. e. a thousand tens of cocoa-nuts. 



Numerals, when joined with a substantive, commonly have the particle e before them, 

 as, vale e ono, six houses ; and if the objects numbered be rational beings, lewe is also 

 employed, as, tamata e lewe tolu, three men. 



Once, twice, thrice, &c., are expressed by vaka prefixed to the numerals, as, vaka- 

 ndua, vaka-rua, vaka-tolu; the same form may serve to express the ordinal numbers, 

 though these, in general, are not distinguished from the cardinal. 



By twos, by threes, &c., are expressed by the particle rja (each, every), prefixed to the 

 numeral, with lewe preceding, if it refer to persons, as, lewe -ga rua, two by two. 



THE PRONOUN. 



The pronouns are numerous and complex. Besides the ordinary singular and plural 

 forms, they have a dual in all three persons, a dual and plural of the first person, which 

 excludes the person addressed, a limited plural, applied only to a small number, two 

 classes of possessive pronouns, separate and affixed, and finally a set of possess! ves 

 appropriated especially to articles of food and drink. Many of the pronouns, moreover, 

 vary in the different dialects. 



All the personal pronouns have particles prefixed to them. These are koi, ke, and kei. 

 The first of these is, for the most part, employed only in the nominative when it follows 

 the verb, or is used independently, in answer to a question. This rule, however, is not 

 always observed, and does not apply to the pronoun of the third person singular, koi 

 koia. Ke, also, is sometimes omitted when the pronoun precedes the verb in the nomi- 

 native case. 



The pronoun au, of the first person, is thus varied : 



SING. 



Koi au, I 

 i au, me, or of me. 



1ST DUAL. 



ke ndaru, thou and I 



i ke ndaru, us two, or of us. 



1ST PLURAL. 



ke nda, ye and I (limited) 

 i ke nda, us, or of us, &c. 



