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From this rule the indeclinable adjectives, by which is meant 

 those adjectives which do not put on the personal and impersonal 

 forms by inflection, but consist of radically different roots, form 

 exceptions. 



Are you sick ? Ke dahkoozzi nuh ? 



You are not sick ! Kahween ke dahkoozzi-see 



I am happy, Ne minwainduin. 



I am unhappy, Kahween ne minwainduz-see. 



His manner of life is bad, Mudjee izzhewabizzi. 



His manner of life is not bad, Kahween mudjee izzhewabizzi-see. 



It is large, Mitshau muggud. 



It is not large, Kahween mitshau-seenon. 



In these examples, the declinable adjectives are rendered nega- 

 tive in see; the indeclinable, remain as simple adjuncts to the 

 verbs ; and the latter put on the negative form. 



4. In the hints and remarks which have now been furnished 

 respecting the Chippewa adjective, its powers and inflections 

 have been shown to run parallel with those of the substantive, in 

 its separation into animates and inanimates; in having the pro- 

 nominal inflections; in taking an inflection for tense — a topic 

 which, by the way, has been very cursorily passed over — and in 

 the numerous modifications to form the compounds. This paral- 

 lelism has also been intimated to hold good with respect to num- 

 ber — a subject deeply interesting in itself, as it has its analogy 

 only in the ancient languages — and it was therefore deemed best 

 to defer giving examples, till they could be introduced without 

 abstracting the attention from other points of discussion. 



Minno and mudjee^ good and bad, being of the limited number 

 of personal adjectives which modern usage permits being applied, 

 although often improperly applied to inanimate objects, they, as 

 well as a few other adjectives, form exceptions to the use of 

 number. Whether we say "a good man" or "a bad man," 

 "good men" or "bad men," the words minno and mudjee remain 

 the same. But all the declinable and coalescing adjectives — ad- 

 jectives which join on, and, as it were, melt into the body of the 

 substantive — take the usual plural inflections, and are governed 

 by the same rules in regard to their use, as the substantive ; per- 

 sonal adjectives requiring personal plurals, &c. 



