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Chapter III. Adjectives. 
7. General remarks on adjectives. 
Adjectives are subject to no change whatever, they are in reality 
nouns and are therefore declinable. 
him huggi hor zdana, he is a good man. 
niht sadom hetkan idana, this horse is bad. 
niht mandl sihil koned, this meal is not savoury. 
Asur horku hudirj idaridku, the Asurs are a small people. 
Ranchi re hand Gomkeku idandkii, at Ranchi there are many 
Sahebs. 
Usui burn, the high mountain. 
Adjectives are formed from nouns by adding the past participle 
ending of the verb, e.g., napd, health, napdkan, healthy. Verbal 
adjectives are formed in the same way ; example : ruvd, to be beaten, 
ruvdkan, beaten ; hum napdkan hor idand, he is a healthy man. Suku 
ruvdkan madaiku Idandkii, they are beaten enemies. 
8. Comparison of adjectives. 
The degrees of comparison are expressed in the same manner, we 
find in Hindi and the Kolarian languages, viz., the word compared 
stands in the nominative and the word with which it is to be compared, 
is placed in the Ablative case, thus : — 
Ipd ord amd ord te haded, my house is larger than your’s. 
Sadom te hdthi ddrid, the elephant is stronger than the horse. 
Ipd sepot sanamku te usulai, my daughter is the tallest (taller 
than all). 
Chapter IV. Pronouns. 
9. Personal pronouns. 
Singular. 
Dual. 
Plural. 
]. Ip, I. 
2. am, thou. 
alip, we two. 
alap, I and you two. 
ahan, you two. 
akip, they two. 
ale, we. 
abu, we and you. 
ape, you. 
From the above it will be seen that in the Dual and the Plural 
there are two forms of the second person, the first excluding and the 
second including the speaker. On the other hand the third person is 
wanting and thq demonstrative pronoun is used instead. 
