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phirt nat mili—never will a book of that sort be found, etté 
ata s* hamar' bhikh nai jati—my hunger will not be satisfied 
with so much flour, ham offi rott khayen—I took that much 
bread, tum ketta kam kiheu—how much work did you do?; 
tumharé ketté larika au ketti latria hai—how many sons and 
rs cle have vou got ?, jetté larika tumharé hai telte hamaré 
have as many sons as you have, jettt ladria hamaré hai 
letti koi k* nat—no one has so many daughters as I have 
Indefinite Pronouns. 
Aur. 
§ 57. This pronoun expresses the sense of ‘ more,’ ‘ other’ 
(else) and i is indeclinable, e.g. aur ka cahi—what more is re- 
quired? , aur kaun sahar jat—who else will go to the city, 
thore admi hid hat aur hua baith hai—some men are here, 
others are seated there. 
an adjective takes the ordinary terminations for 
Seite the oblique and the feminine: aur, auré, aur’, auri 
§ 58. Kot 
means ‘some one’ or ‘ any one’ and is indeclinable, e.g. kot 
rahai—there was some one, kot nai rahai—there was wees 
kot rahat—there were some » pesule. koi ka marau na—do n 
beat anybody. 
Koi does not change even as an adjective, e.g. kot admi or 
meharuad—some man or woman, két admi nat ayé—no man 
came, koi larika ka na méarau—do not beat an y boy 
Like ka, kuchu refers to an inanimate thing. It means 
something or anything; kuchw-—dir . kahew—obl., e.g. ham 
kuchu nat kihen—I did nothing, ham ighen s¢ pet bhari lihen— 
I filled my belly with somethin 
The adjective based on kuchu has the same form as k@z. 
9. The pronoun sab (all) has one constant form for 
both genders and cases, e.g. sab kihin'—all did ; sab sé. ee = 
or whole) as an adjective also does not change, e.g. sab a 
s* ham sé kot matlab nai—I have nothing to do with all on 
sab duniya matlabi hai—the whole saala 3 is selfish. 
Compound Pronouns. 
§ 60. 76 koi (whoever) and 76 kuchw (whatever) are the 
only compound pronouns an used only in the direct, e.g. 
j0 kot maris' hoi so bakwri dei—whoever may have beaten, admit, 
j0 kuchu bhawa so bhawa—whatever happened, happened, =. 
ere ge has the ordinary jt, jehi with or without the wor 
, €.g. cahai jt kt rota hoi ham khaib jarur—whomsoever r the 
ieee may belong to, I shall eat it. 
