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 2. To words ending in -na, -ka, or -tra. (N.B.—Only nouns are here given as examples, but verbs are treated in exactly the same way.)

These are very numerous, the choice of one rather than another being regulated by the distance, real or imaginary, of the object pointed out. By the insertion of re, they become plural; while by inserting za another class of these pronouns is formed, expressing the unseen, remembered, or conceived, as opposed to what is seen and actually pointed out.