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posed of the attributive ordinals with the addition of the pos- 

 sessive suffix gi ; for instance : 



Yahnectegi ==■ ys. 



§ 53. Collective numerals: 



ataxlot'' two together yalof" three together yalox/ot^ four together, etc. 



Pronouns. 



§ 54. Personal pronouns : met', I ; tet\ thou ; tit' del', he ; viit\ 

 we ; tit\ you ; ti' tel\ they. The gender is not indicated in the 

 third person. The compound personal pronouns are formed by 

 annexing the post-position eji' e (self) to the personal pronouns : 

 Met-eji' e (myself), tet-eji' e tud-eji' e, etc. 



§ 55. Possessive modifying pronouns for the first and second 

 persons are the same as the personal, for instance, Alet eci' e (my 

 father); while the third is tit' de in the singular and ti' te in the 

 plural. The possessive modifying pronouns do not change. 

 The following are the absolute possessive pronouns : 



me'ile mine te'ile thine Tu' dele his, hers 



ini'tle ours ti'tle yours ti'tele theirs 



Absolute possessive pronouns assume case-suffixes. 



§ 56. Demonstrative pronouns : Tin, this ; and tan, that. 

 These two pronouns are used only as modifiers before nouns, 

 and remain unchanged in most cases. After verbal nouns end- 

 ing in /* (see § 84) tan is joined as a post-position, and the case- 

 suffixes are joined to it, while the verbal noun remains un- 

 changed. For instance, yii' ol-tan, that one who saw ; li' gel-tan^ 

 that old one. Tan rather corresponds here to the relative pro- 

 nouns which, who. 



Tit'bon (this) and Ta' bun (that) are mostly independent pro- 

 nouns, like the German dei'jenige, and assume case-affixes. But 

 in some cases they are used as modifiers, and are declined nev- 

 ertheless (see the text). 



§ 57. Interrogative pronouns : 



kin who, le' )ne what, xa'niitn how many (much) and nii' niun which. 

 Kin and le' me are declined. 



