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Pronouns. 

 The personal pronouns are — 



Kei, I. Keiho, We. 



Nung, Thou. Nungho, Ye. 



Hipa, He. \ 



Hinoo,S*«. [mho, They. 



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The third personal pronoun has however various forms — as, Hii 

 Hihi, Hiihu, Hichu, Hiichu, all of which may signify persons or 

 things either in the masculine, feminine or neuter gender ; and the 

 use of them depends upon the circumstances on which the person 

 or thing has previously been alluded to, or upon their position while 

 the speaker is speaking. 



A curtailed form of pronoun, always accompanies, and precedes 

 the verb (except in the future tense) independently of its nomi- 

 native, this form is — Ka, /or we — Na, thou or ye, and A, he, she, it, 

 or they. 



Almost all nouns, and every adjective when used by itself, has 

 prefixed to it this simple form of the 3rd personal pronoun, thus — 



Aphae, good, or it (is) good. Aline, large, or it (is) large. 



Alba, wing or its wing. Amei, tail, or its tail. 



And in fact every noun having reference to beings, in either of 

 the three persons, cannot stand alone, but must be preceded, either 

 by the individual to whom it belongs, or by one of the personal 

 pronouns. Thus Loo, the word for head, would be unintelligible to 

 a Kookie, unless speaking definitely it were either 



Shem hou loo, Shem hou's head. 



Mi loo, a man's head. 



Ka loo, my head. 



Naloo, thy head, or indefinitely, Aloo, his, her, or its head — and 

 in the same manner Pa, father, must stand either as Kapa, Napa, 

 or A pa. 



Pronouns are declined in the same manner as nouns, by means of 

 /^-positions. The Genitive case may be at pleasure in either of 

 the following forms. 



Keima, keia, kei or ka, mine, 



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