GRAMMAR OF SA‘A AND ULAWA. 149 
(on) you? ‘o ta ana atei from whom did you get it? ¢ tono ana wai 
inthou he drank of this water. This possessive is also used— 
a. as the object of certain verbs to which the pronoun is not suffixed: 
nou hitwala‘imoli ana I believed him. 
b. when the object is separated from a transitive verb: ¢ ha‘ara‘t 
mumuni ana he called him secretly. In cases where a verb has been 
rendered transitive by the addition of a suffix this suffix is omitted when 
the third possessive is used, owing to the object being separated from 
the verb: horo to beat, horo‘t transitive, kire ko horo tata‘ala aku they 
beat me unmercifully. Certain verbs also employ this possessive as 
the object instead of using the sufixed pronoun. (Cf. to‘o 2. 
c. to show certain differences of meaning: ¢ ere aku he forbade me, 
e ere naku‘e he spoke for my benefit; ¢ dolosieu he asked my name, ¢ 
. dolosie aku he asked me about it; also idiomatically ha‘ata‘inie aku show 
it tome. The adjective ‘aho‘a, apart from, is followed by this posses- 
sive, ‘aho‘a aku apart from me. So also is the preposition liuta‘a S. 
liutaha U. beyond: e lae liuta‘aku he went beyond me. 
d. in the third person plural dnz is used of things: mu maholo dni the 
times for them, ne‘isae pdinadni think much of them. (Cf. dni 2. 
ADJECTIVES. 
1. Words which are qualifying terms may also be used in the form of 
verbs, but some may be used without verbal particles, following the 
qualified word: poro paine big man, ‘elekale haora small child. 
2. Some words have a form which is only used of adjectives, either of 
termination or of prefix. 
a. Adjectival terminations are ‘d, ld, la‘a, td, ta‘a, of which ‘a and 
la are suffixed to nouns as well as to verbs but the others are suffixed to 
verbs only. 
‘a: sane white ant sane‘da infested with ants. An intensification of 
meaning is given to certain adjectives by doubling the first syllable or 
the first two syllables and by suffixing ‘a: manola pure, manomanola‘a 
very pure, diena good, didiena‘a very good. 
‘ala: sasu to smoke, sasu‘ala smoky. 
la: ‘usu a dog, ‘usule possessing dogs, kohi to be beautiful, kohikohila 
beautiful. 
ta: ta‘ingelu with one accord, ta‘ingelute all together. 
la‘a: mae to be sick, mamaela‘a weakly, sickly. 
ta‘a: repa to be curved, rerepata‘a curved. 
b. Adjectival prefixes are ma, mwa, mala, taka, tata, toto. 
The prefixes ma and mwa are common in words which may fairly be 
called adjectives; like mala they show condition and are prefixed to 
verbs: ‘o‘2 to break, ma‘o‘7 broken, hiohio to bend, mwahiohio swayed by 
the wind, keke side, malakeke on one side. 
‘a is prefixed to verbs and forms participles: /aéngu to pluck up, “alangu 
detached, hdali to break, ‘ahali broken off. 
