Shakespear, John: A grammar of the Hindustani language (London, 1826)

HINDUSTANI LANGUAGE.

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:* * so, / ^ or £ ^ to us; ^ £ or ^ or ^ ^

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fromyou; ^ ^\ or J\ among tnose people; but,

i)/; would scarcely be admissible, tbe substantive
necessarily taking the plural sign, which is then not
required with the preceding demonstrative.

The genitive terrninations \j (ra) U (nc) must, like the
postposition K be made to agree with the subsequent
nouns, or those to which they relate; as,

c c

near my house, U thy mother, ^ S) Clt his own

cc^ c

door, ^ J.A with his own eyes; when, however, any
word intervenes between the pronoun and postposition,

O 9 f

and as well as ^ and £ are then used with instead

o' ^

of the genitive forms ; as, S ^ of poor me. and

o /

Jf and may, also, remain uninflected when separated

✓ o x

from any postposition ; so, ^ what gen-

tlemans man is it? \&jU. b>- ^ ^ J£ I shall depart on

c'

some clay; ^m some thing. As in the nouns, so
in the pronouns the mere inflections are adopted with
simple postpositions; and other words used postpositively
require an inflected masculine, or a feminine, genitive: so,

o'

jj on me, ^ in that, jj~* near me, in

c

* Tbe word all, becomes in like manner for the objective
cases of the plural.

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