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thus,— *£-JpT ‘twice,’ ‘thrice,’ ^TT-JT«T ‘four 
times,’ v«* u '<7 ‘ once,’ ^u"<T ‘ twice,’ wt*T ‘ thrice,’ qpf ‘ four 
times,’ qT’q f?: ‘ five times,’ ‘ five times,’ ‘ seven times,’ 
# . ^ 'J 
^3-Jl»T ‘ eight times. 
69. Fractional numbers ; — the following may be noted. 
‘ a quarter.’ 
‘ a half.’ 
‘ three quarters.’ 
‘ one and a half.’ 
‘ two and a half.’ 
‘ three and a half.’ 
70. Ordinals ; — the following may be noted. 
First, 
Second, ^JJT, ^flTTTJUT, ^TTT^E. 
Third, frfSTrp?<T, frTqTTT*. 
Fourth, ’•(W**. 
The words in and may optionally have anunasik on 
either of the last two syllables ; thus, ^^TTT^rf, or or 
and so on. 
Adjectives used as Substantives. 
71. When adjectives are used as substantives, they ai’e treated as 
such. 
Thus vy ‘ a big ’ is thus declined as a substantive. 
Singular. Plural. 
Nom. ^f, ?f^c 
Acc. *tf-*T<T-3>T,-WT 
and so on. 
CHAPTER VII. 
Pronouns. 
72. The declension of pronouns is somewhat peculiar. Each pro- 
noun has in each number three forms, — a direct, an oblique, and a 
genitive. The direct form is that used with the nominative, the oblique 
is that used in the accusative and sometimes in the dative, the genitive 
is that used in the other cases, and sometimes in the dative. In other 
words the oblique form is used in the accusative, with the postpositions 
^iT and ^!T, and it is also used in the dative with the same postpositions. 
The genitive form is used by itself for the genitive, and with the usual 
postpositions for the other cases. Moreover it is used with the post- 
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