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PHILOLOGY. 



Tdma, father. 



Sing. 



Dual. 



Plu. 



The nouns which require these affixes are the names of the different parts of the body, 

 with words signifying soul and mind, and the names of some of the nearest family rela- 

 tions. In general the possession implied by them appears to be more intimate than that 

 denoted by the separate pronouns. 



RELATIVES. 



There are no proper relative pronouns in the language, nor does this deficiency cause 

 any obscurity in the construction of a sentence ; as, for example, sa levu na koro mat 

 Viti-levu sa ygali ki Mbau, many are the towns on Viti-levu [which] are subject to 

 Mbau. The verbal particles e and ka and the relative particle ki-na serve, as will be 

 shown hereafter, to prevent any ambiguity in the connexion of different clauses of a 

 sentence. 



INTERROGATIVE PRONOUNS. 



These are three in number, viz : Set, who ? Sava, what ? and viSa, how many ? Sei 

 is declined like proper names, and Sava like common nouns, as : 



ko Sei, who ? 



i Sei, whom or whose 



vei Sei, to whom 



kini Sei, from or by whom 



a Sava, what? 

 ni Sava, of what 

 ki na Sava, to what 

 i na Sava, in, by what 



In inquiring the proper name of any person, place, or thing, ko Sei is always used, 

 as, ko Sei a yaSana (or, ai aSana) 1 What is his name? Ko Sei a yaSa ni vanua i ei? 

 What is the name of this country ? 



Sei always precedes the noun to which it relates ; Sava may be used either before or 

 after, as, a Sava a manumanu i ei? or, a manumanu Sava i ei ? what animal is this ? 



ViSa is usually preceded by e, as, e viSa na mbete (R.), how many priests ? 



DEMONSTRATIVES. 



The demonstrative pronoun in most common use is ygou, meaning this or that. It 

 receives some affixes, which do not apparently alter its meaning, as, ygore, ygoya 



