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-Case.—To form the cases, nouns take additions by means 
of postfixes : 
Nominative—This case merely names the thing spoken 
of, and is without flexion, as, gal, a dog; gettup-gettup, a 
boomerang; guré, a kangaroo; kanna, a yamstick; wirin, 
a waddy. 
The causative, or nominative-agent, represents the sub- 
ject doing some act, as Drualla gal winan, a man a dog 
beat. Gala guramu ngutthan, a dog an opossum bit. 
Instrumental.—This case takes the same affix as the 
causative. Drualla gal winan gettup-gettupa, a man beat 
a dog with a boomerang. Bulle-bulla murungal winan 
wirinya, a woman beat a boy with a waddy. Sometimes, 
in such expressions as these, the causative suffix is omitted, 
and the instrumental only employed. 
Genitive.—The owner and the chattel are both declined, 
but the affix to the former differs from that to the latter :* 
Drualangat gettup-gettupmung, a man’s boomerang. Bulle- 
bullangat kannawung, a woman’s yamstick. 
Personal property of any description can be declined by 
possesive suffixes to the noun, thus: 
cist Person Gettup-gettupmain, My sounerauie 
Singular < 2nd ,, Gettup-gettupmun, Thy boomerang 
SEO gs Gettup-gettupmung, His boomerang 
and so on through the remaining numbers. 
If two or more articles be claimed, an infix is inserted 
between the noun root and the possessive affix, thus: 
Dual Galaramain, My two dogs 
Trial Galawawungain, My three dogs 
Plural Galabanain, My several dogs. 
+ See my “ Tharumba Language,”—Queensland Geographical Journal, 
Vol. xv111., pp. 58 - 61, 
