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PRONOUNS. 



Pronouns have no gender, only person, number, and case. The third 

 person, ipl, is used for be, slie, and it. They are decliued as follows : 



Nom. in 



Poss. inim or iunih 



Qbj. inna 



(Singular. 



THOU. 



Xom. im 



Poss. imim or imnih 



Obj. imana 



JSTom. ipi 



HE, SHE, or IT. 

 Poss. ipuiui or ipuimnih 

 Plural. 



Obj. ipua 



WE. 



Nom. nun 

 Poss, nunim 

 Obj. uuna 



YE. 



Kona. ima 

 Poss. imamnim 

 Obj. imamna 



THEY. 



'Norn, ima 

 Poss. imamnim 

 Obj. imuua 



The forms inuih, imnih, and ipnimnih are always strictly possessive, 

 representing, respectively, mine, thine, his. But the other form given 

 for the possessive is sometimes found in the nominative; and, as iu 

 nouns, the objective form is at times used in the possessive. 



RELATIVE PRONOUNS. 



WHO. 



]:?"om. 

 Poss. 

 Obj. 



Nom. 

 Poss. 



ishi 



ishinim 



ishiua 



Ishi! 

 Ishinim 



WHO ? 



THAT or WHICH. 



Xom. kapam 

 Poss. kapamnim 

 Obj. kapamna 



THOSE. 



Nom. yokomam 

 Obj. yokomuna 



ADJECTIVES. 



The Xez Perces language differs from other Indian languages, as the 

 Choctaw, &c., the adjective being always placed before the noun; as — 



Kez Perces : tats hama (good man). 



Choctaw : hatak chukma (man good). 



Adjectives do not regularly take degrees of comparison, except that 

 they may be intensified ; as — 



kapsish, bad ; kapsishnihnih, &C. 



Adjectives of number are : 



naks, 1 

 lapit, 2 

 mitat, 3 

 pilapt, 4 

 pahat, 5 

 wilaks, G 



winapt, 7 • 



wim?(tut, 8 



kuis, 9 



putimt, 10 



putimt wah naks, 11 



putimt wah lapit, 12 



ilaptit, 20 

 mitaptit, 30 

 wilaksaptit, 00 

 putaptit, 100 

 putumisus, 1000 



