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507 



Objective. 



c1v6 eem. 



His or Hers. 



dye eemewau, Theirs, (pos. in.) 



In these forms the noun is singular throughout. To render it 

 plural, as well as the pronoun, the appropriate general plurals ug 

 and W72, or ig and wi, must be superadded. But it must be borne 

 in mind, in making these additions, " that the plural inflection to 

 inanimate nouns (which have no objective case), forms the object- 

 ive case to animate, which have no number in the third person." 

 (p. 461.) The particle tin., therefore, which is the appropriate 

 plural for the inanimate nouns in these examples, is only the ob- 

 jective mark of the animate. 



The plural of I, is naun^ the plural of thou and he, ivau. But 

 as these inflections would not coalesce smoothly with the possess- 

 ive inflections, the connective vowels i and e are prefixed, making 

 the plural of I, inaun, and of thou, &c., ewaii. 



If we strike from these declensions the root IE, leaving its ani- 

 mate and inanimate forms AU and ee, and adding the plural of 

 the noun, we shall then, taking the animate declension as an in- 

 stance, have the following formula of the pronominal declensions: 



To render this formula of general use, six variations (five in 

 addition to the above) of the possessive inflection are required, 

 corresponding to the six classes of substantives, whereby aum 

 would be changed to aw, eem^ %m, om^ and oom^ conformably to the 

 examples heretofore given in treating of the substantive. The 

 objective inflection would also be sometimes changed to een^ and 

 sometimes to oan. 



Having thus indicated the mode of distinguishing the person, 

 number, relation, and gender, or what is deemed its technical 

 equivalent, the mutations words undergo, not to mark the dis- 



