The third person dual, ekurateiYc, " their two," and all persons 

 ■of plural, as, amtnaka, "ours;" cnxtganka, "yours;" and etnika, 

 " theirs ;" are treated exactly like those above. 



Besides these there are other possessive pronouns, which have 

 iDoth a reflective and a reciprocal sense, acting however as posses- 

 sive pronouns as well ; in this case their meaning is, pertaining 

 or belonging to any person. 



They are only used in the nominative case, and are undeclin- 

 able. 



nukara, mine. 



unkwangara, thine. 



ekurara, his, hers, it. 



ilinakara, our two. 



mbalakara, your two. 



ekuraratera, their two. 



anunakara, ours. 



aragankara, yours. 



etnikara, theirs. 



The following double forms have the same meanings : — nukiltja 

 and nukaringa, " mine ;" unktvarigiltja and unkivangarinya^ 

 " thine," etc., but these two are like the flrst-najiied, regularly 

 declined. 



Nearly all pronouns may be connected with all specified prepo" 

 sitions in Chapter II — katjia nukanauna, " to my child ;" katjia 

 nukcdela, " with or by my child," &c. 



PERSONAL PRONOUNS. 



a. First Person Singular. — There are two pronouns for " I," 

 I.e., ata or, the first a being dropped, ta. This is always used 

 when connected with a transitive verb, as, ta timia., " I beat," 

 ta ilkuina, " I eat ;" wdiereas connected with an intransitive 

 verb, there is iisedjinga, asjinga lima, "I go," ovjinga indamn, 

 " I sleep ;" ta is indeclinable, but when, for instance, they say, 

 " God gives me life," where give is a transitive verb, they use 

 Jinga, and say, 



Altjiralajingana etata nteina. 

 " God to me life gives." 

 But supyjosing they say, " he died for me instead of me," this is 

 expressed by the possessive pronoun nuka, as, era nukanga iluka, 

 " he for me died," because Ji?z//rt is only used in the nominati\e 

 and dative cases. 



h. Second person, unta, " thou, you." This stands also only 

 in nominative case ; where necessary they take for declension tlie 

 possessive pronoun unkioanga, " tliy.'' This is sometimes in 

 genitive and dative cases abbreviated, viz., 



