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(c) adding -? (after shortening @ to -u) if the masc. 
ends in a, e.g. kart: karut (bitter). 
Note.—Adjectives ending in -@ change only optionally 
for the fem., e.g. garté or garut baltt (a heavy bucket). 
. The following adjectives do not change for gender : 
layak (able), sapét (white), kharab (bad), ujar (desolate), lai 
(red), karia (black), badi! (useless), bhart (huge), jarav (inlaid). 
Case. 
are unmarried, wui larikan ka kua@r—or kuare—batawat' hai— 
they say those boys are unmarried) or (0) if it ends in a vowel 
the noun with which it agrees is used with a postposition (e.g. 
wui larikan ka bhala—or bhai?—batawat' hai—they say those 
boys are good). 
§ 36. Attributively the obl. is used to qualify a sg. noun 
followed by a postposition (e.g. wui kuareé larika ka—or kuart 
latria ka—sab jane dekhini—everybody saw that unmarried 
boy—or girl) or to qualify a pl. noun, e.g. wui kuaré (or kuar’) 
larika hua hai—those unmarried boys are there; wui kuart 
latiria hia hat—those unmarried girls are here. 
Predicatively the obl. is used always with a pl. noun, e.g. 
wui larika kuaré (or kuar?) hat. ; 
Note.—If a sg. noun is used as a subject of a pl. verb, 
the adjective which qualifies that noun must be plural, e.g. 
baréliwalé caca aye hat; Rameandra bare acch® raja raha ; 
? thanedar bare hat wui chot hat. 
Form. 
§ 37. The masc. obl. is formed from the mase. dir. (a) by 
adding -2 if the dir. ends in a consonant or in -&% shortening 
-% to -u), e.g. dubar: dubaré, kart: karué ; (b) by substituting -é 
i 

| badi is used only predicatively. 
2 For the optional use of the direct see above § 35. 
