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sijamara rlarpoa | 
or ‘I get four at a time’ 
5уатага`‘гроа 
агре[ага‘Га`‘гроа ‘I get six at a time’ 
etc. 
martinortino ‘making two of it, making them two’ 
pijasijortinut ‘making them three’ 
syamanortinut ‘making them four’ 
This mode of expression is used in distribution, e. g. when you take 
or distribute two at a time, three at a time etc. “Taken in pairs” is 
expressed thus; martik te-simana:k. 
ala*'se‘riartino ‘doing it once’ е. 5. ala''seriarlino takiwara ‘I saw it once’ 
marteriartino »  » twice 
pinajoriartino »  » three times 
clamariartino > D ome > 
tatimariartino »  » five » 
§ 72. Adjective and Comparison. — There is a large number of 
suffixes with an adjective sense attached to nominal-stems, e. g. 
-Cuaq, -tiwaq or -tujo ‘large’ (varying forms of WGr. -s'uaq) 
-П`иа4 or -p'lwaq ‘little; dear’ 
-patiwin (or -wan) ‘many’ -csaq ‘serviceable for —’ 
A great many adjectives are formed from verbs that have an 
adjective sense, by means of the suffix -soq (-seq, -leq) or -toq (teq) е. g. 
qernertog (or -teq) ‘dark’ ta‘rtog ‘obscure’ 
They are inflected like the nouns. 
These adjectives formed of verbs may be inflected in the com- 
parative but not so that the ending -soq or -toq is inflected, but 
by attaching -neq (the verbal noun ending) to the verbal stem, 
this -neg being generally supplied with the 34 person’s possessive 
suffix that refers to the other thing with which the comparition is 
made, e. g. 
apinera < aniwoq ‘is large’ + neq + a: ‘larger than the other’ 
mikinera < mikiwon ‘is small’ — ‘smaller than the other’ 
тега < silip'on ‘is stout, thick’? — ‘stouter than the other’ 
атигега < amip‘on ‘is thin’ — ‘thinner than the other’ 
uasin'era < uasip'om ‘is far away’ — ‘farther away than the other’ 
As verb types containing an adjective comparison the following 
occur : 
ane'ce'won ‘is larger; older’; nukace'won ‘is younger’; lagitse'wan'a ‘he is a 
nearer relation of mine than another’; udn'in qananisa‘won ‘he is older than Г; 
ua nin anine:won (or apile‘won) ‘he is taller than Г; sikegarne'won ‘there is more 
ice there’; amertale-lut ‘being more’ (< amertät ‘many’). 
