528 GRAMMAK OF TOE KLAMATH LANGUAGE. 



IL INFLECTION FOR CASE. 



Like tlie adjective in -ni, the numeral adjective possesses a long' form 

 in -«'»-, -en- and a sliorter one. Tlie longer form appears only in a few 

 cases, however, and instancies will be given below. 



The numeral may be used attributively, and then usually precedes the 

 noun which it qualities ; or it may be used predicatively, and tlien its posi- 

 tion in the sentence is more free. In both instances the numeral is inflected 

 by case, like the adjective, but may at any time exchange its suffix with 

 the uniform ending -a, which occurs in so many adjectives and pronouns 

 in their oblique cases, and in rapid speech is drojjped altogether. Only 

 case-suffixes — and of case-postpositions only -tala and the inessive -i (in na-i 

 on one side) — are employed in its inflection. 



The noun tattiksni in the paradigm following means children, and occurs 

 in the distributive form only, though in the sense of a true plural; 



ndAni. ndsinni tataksni three children (subj.). 

 ndannenash, ndanna tatakiash three children (obj.). 

 ndannenam tatAkiam of three children. 

 ndannantka tatakiamti or tatakiamat about three children. 

 ndannantka tatakiashtka by means of three children. 

 ndanna tatakiam^e'ni, tatakiamksh;i^e'ni where three children are. 

 ndanna tatakiamkshi tvhere three children live. 



ndtinna tatakiamkshtala, abbr. tatakiiimshtala totvard the place where 

 three children live. 



Another paradigm contains a combination with a substantive, in which 

 the possessive case is impossible or unusual, and is therefore replaced by 

 the partitive case : 



tc'-unipni shishflaga ten shreds. te-unipantk shishilagtat 



te-unipenash, t(j-unip shishilag(a) tr-unipant(a) shishilagks;iksi 



te-unipanti shishilagti te-unipant shishilagtala 

 td-unipantk(a) shishilagatka 



The case-ending -tka, -ntkn, -ntk frequently becomes connected with 

 substantives standing in the locative case. 



