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Rh in adjectives derived (chiefly from verbs) with the terminations -lig, -elig, -bar, -som. U‘ro disquiet, U‘aar bad year, uska‘delig harmless, uanse‘lig insignificant (but u‘adelig not of nobility), utvi‘vlsom indubitable. Note further the adjectives uvi‘dende ignorant, umæ‘lende speechless, ue‘nig of a different opinion, ukri‘stelig un-Christian, the conjunction ua‘gtet although, and the verbs uma‘ge (or u‘mage) and ulei‘lige to trouble.

75. Different from the syllabic accent is the sentence or rhetoric accent, whereby a different stress is given to the different words of the sentence according to their logical importance.

Pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions and other particles as well as auxiliary verbs are as a rule unaccented. When a word is used in the sentence without stress it is subject to different changes, such as abbreviation of long sounds, loss of glottal stop (see § 76) and even loss of a part of their substance (see §§ 65 and 16).