CARNÁTACA LANGUAGE. 163 ing strength, or strong; sono possessing money, or wealthy; schon Passo jao or dorow a wealthy man. In the Carnataca language, when a noun of quality is used after a noun or pronoun, to express some quality, the substantive verb is omitted; and the noun of quality may either be formed into a compound word, or not;. as ea నాళివను he is a good man; అవను బటరను he is clever.. If a woun of quality is used after a noun or pronoun, it must agree in gender and number with the nominative to wbich it is added; or it must be compounded with another noun or pronoun agreeing in gender and number with the nominative first placed'; as e m bruine is stupid; Su quesorts she iš clever; w a Tuzo tu which is crooked? ewqat may ou ajo ka that man is wicked ; on Footno' he is a black man; IKUST ಸ he is a great mrun ; ಅವಳಶಿತೈ' she is a great woman; ಅದು ಶಿವನ it is a great thing; దూరునిపుణరు who is skilful ? లూబ్రాక్షణను డాడ్డవి that brunin is a great poet ; సంపరు అస్థిరపు riches are ficcting. When a noun follow's another noun or pronoun to describe some circumstance regarding it, it must agree in number and gender ; as e nviesa, he is a breanin; ఈమనుష్య సువి this nan, is a poet; యారుఅర సరు who are kings ? ÝDN she is a queen. The comparative and superlative degrees are not, as in the English language, denoted by adding an affix to the adjective, but they are expressed by the assistance of the dative, ablative, and locative cases, in the mode already mentioncd. OP PRONOUNS. · The crude pronouns Ja; 2, 03, 0m, evod, est, czas, tra, trz, 30, ww, and was are, in the same manner as nouns, used for the nomiar. Digitized by Google
