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Nominative.— Ngura, a camp. Mirri, a dog. Warn, a 

 crow. Gnragi, an opossum. Bulga, a boomerang. Kunni, 

 a yamstick. 



Causative. — Thurgalagu warru gumi, a man a child beat. 

 Guragandu gira dliurra, an opossum leaves eats. Mirrigu 

 guragi guttlie, a dog an opossum bit. 



Genitive. — Thurgallanggu ngura, a man's camp. Gura- 

 ganggu dhun, an opossum's tail. 



The possessive case of some nouns is shown by suffixing 

 a particle corresponding to the person and number required 

 as in the following table, which exhibits the inflection of 

 ngura, a camp. 



« 1st Person My camp (camp my) Ngurahggadhi 

 Singular ] 2nd ,, Thy camp Ngurangganu 



( 3rd ,, His camp Nguranggalugu 



1st ( Our, inch, camp, Nguranggaligi 

 I Person ( Our, excl., camp, Nguranggaligini 

 Dual - 2nd ,, Your camp, Ngurangganula 



( 3rd ,, Their camp, Nguranggullagula 



1st ( Our, inch, camp, Nguranggangenigi 



c Person ( Our, excl., camp, Nguranggangenigini 



Plural \ 2nd ,, Your camp, Ngurangganugal 



(3rd,, Their camp, Nguranggalagugal 



The foregoing words also have the meaning of " at my 

 camp," etc. 



Dative. — Thai nguranggu yanna, the camp come to. 



Ablative. — Ngurandi yannaidhi, the camp go from. 



If two or more of anything be* claimed, the inflexion of 

 the noun would be : — Mirridhi, my dog ; mirrigaledhi, my 

 two dogs ; mirribunggodhi, my several dogs ; and so on 

 through all the persons and numbers as above. 



Adjectives. 

 Adjectives have the same numbers and cases as the 

 nouns, and are placed subsequent to them : Thurgala bitthi, 



