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it. "En ho kajikeeai aya era," that man said to his wife, "Dendka 

 oe tootigoikeea," Dendka shot the bird. " Eean hon do chowlee seta 

 emadya," my son gave the dog some rice. 



Adjective. 

 The adjective does not alter in termination, either in number, case, 

 or gender ; and always precedes the noun it qualifies. As " Boogee 

 ho," a good man ; " Boogee ho-a," of a good man ; " Boogee ho lo te," 

 with a good man, &c. There are no degrees of comparison, but as in 

 Hindustani the qualifying words very, or most of all, are prefixed to 

 denote grades of quality, as "Etka," bad, " Ena te need o etka," this 

 is worse than that. " Sabee re nee o etka minna," this is worst of all. 

 "Boogee leka era," a pretty woman. "Boogee leka era ko," pretty 

 women. 



Pronoun. 

 The first personal pronoun has four numbers, the singular, dual, 

 plural, and plural comprehensive. The others only the three first, as 

 noticed in the noun-substantives. 



The possessive pronouns are the same as the personal, with the 

 genitive inflection a added. 



Personal Pronouns. 

 Singular. Dual. Plural. PI. comprehensive. 



1st. Eeng or aing, I Alleeng, ive two Alle, we Aboo, we all 



2d. Urn, thou Abben, you two Appe, you „ 



3d. Ay or ayo, he Aking, they two Ako, they „ 



In speaking, if the person include the person addressed, himself, and 

 every one present, as nominatives or agents, he uses the plural com- 

 prehensive. If he exclude the person addressed, he employs the first 

 person plural, as " Hola aboo seniena," yesterday we went (i. e. you 

 and all of us.) " Hola alle senie'na," yesterday we went (i. e. not you, 

 we alone.) 



The personal pronouns in the nominative case both precede and 

 terminate the verb, optionally with the speaker, as, I speak, " Eeng 

 kajitanna" or "Eeng kajitannaing" or " Kajitannaing." 



I go, "Eeng senotana," or "Eeng senotannaing," or " Senotan- 

 naing." 



And to give energy to the sentence, the pronoun is repeated, with 

 the connect " do" between them, as " Eeng do eeng kajitanna," 'Tis I 

 who speak," Urn do am kombookenna," Thou alone statest it. 





