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HINDUSTANI LANGUAGE.
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vours, gjfifi or ^ gjfi ^Jfromfairgirls, \jf
a fair boy, f g:Jf ff to fair boys. These examples are
intended to shew thatthe adjective may be used alone* or
after its substantive as well as before it; and that, when a
feminine noun and its adjective come together in the plural,
both may take the plural sign, or it may be dispensed with
in the adjective, whether the substantive follows or pre-
cedes; but that, with respect to masculines in the plurai,
the ftrstis generally, or perhaps universahy, constructed as
a nominative, and the last only takes the afftx - J (on) or j\
(o) requisite for the other cases.
13. The ordinals of numbers, being in fact adjectives,
c ^
are invariably declined and used as such ; so, f the
o o c>o
fourth time, j at the thircl door, the
fiftli son, ^ from the sixth son, jjfi the
twelfth daughter. These ordinals, it will be seen, are after
the fourth regularly obtained by adding (wan) (wei)
or (wiri) to the cardinals, the ^ and j of which affixes
may in some cases be either together or separately drop-
. o o o
ped ; but, ^>- six makes or or s^th, as
sj*\ eleven often becomes eleventh ; and the termi-
nation *\ (a), where it occurs in cardinals, is sometimes
changed to g\y, &c. for the ordinals; as, or or
from sfi twelve.
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vours, gjfifi or ^ gjfi ^Jfromfairgirls, \jf
a fair boy, f g:Jf ff to fair boys. These examples are
intended to shew thatthe adjective may be used alone* or
after its substantive as well as before it; and that, when a
feminine noun and its adjective come together in the plural,
both may take the plural sign, or it may be dispensed with
in the adjective, whether the substantive follows or pre-
cedes; but that, with respect to masculines in the plurai,
the ftrstis generally, or perhaps universahy, constructed as
a nominative, and the last only takes the afftx - J (on) or j\
(o) requisite for the other cases.
13. The ordinals of numbers, being in fact adjectives,
c ^
are invariably declined and used as such ; so, f the
o o c>o
fourth time, j at the thircl door, the
fiftli son, ^ from the sixth son, jjfi the
twelfth daughter. These ordinals, it will be seen, are after
the fourth regularly obtained by adding (wan) (wei)
or (wiri) to the cardinals, the ^ and j of which affixes
may in some cases be either together or separately drop-
. o o o
ped ; but, ^>- six makes or or s^th, as
sj*\ eleven often becomes eleventh ; and the termi-
nation *\ (a), where it occurs in cardinals, is sometimes
changed to g\y, &c. for the ordinals; as, or or
from sfi twelve.
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