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Rh qe vasuar o qeta lue ma, if you find taro pull (it) up. The same is the case with 3rd plural ra.

(h) Pronouns suffixed to Nouns. (1) Of these the Singular only is a distinct Pronoun.

(2) These are suffixed to the particular Class of Nouns; see Nouns 1. (a); above described.

(3) The 3rd sing, n, as distinct from na, points to some particular person; ape kikin o tanun by a man's side, ape kiki ima beside a house; o tete we tako ape sus tavine an infant hangs at a woman's breast, but ape susun ravevena at its mother's.

(4) In the Exclusive 1st and 3rd Dual and Trial, n is introduced before the suffixed Pronoun; napanenkara, napanenkatol, hands of us two, or three; napanenrara, napanenratol, of them two, three; but in the 3rd person not always so.

(5) After k is often added the syllable sa; napaneksa my hand; which cannot be explained.

2. Demonstrative Pronouns.

Iloke, loke, this; ilone, lone, that; ike, this, ine, that.

Of these ine and ike can be used with the articles o and i, as if Nouns; but in tamaike, tamaine, like this, like that, are seen to be Pronouns.

To all these the Demonstratives nake, nane, are often added; ke being a demonstrative particle pointing near, and ne farther away.

The plural ragai is also a demonstrative Pronoun; often, with the personal Article, iragai, those. Dual iragera, ragera; Trial iragetol, ragetol.

3. Interrogative Pronouns. The Nouns sei, sava, with Personal Articles make isei who? singular, irasei who? plural; irosei who? of a woman, irarosei of women; with the demonstrative Article o sava what?

(a) Sei represents the name, not the person himself; isei? really asks what is that person's name? To ask a name is not o sava nasasana? what is his name, but isei nasasana?

(b) Sava is shewn a Noun bry the question nasavama? your what? of a part of the body or a relative. Person's names being names of things, the Personal Article with sava asks a person's name; i sava? who? iro sava? who? of a woman.

Sava becomes sa; o sa? what?

4. Indefinite Pronouns.

The Nouns sei and sava also make Indefinite Pronouns; isei, irasei some one, some persons, o sava some, any, thing.

A word which is also a numeral, tea, is also an indefinite Pronoun, some, any.

The distributive val expresses 'each.'

There are no Relative Pronouns; care must be taken lest an Indefinite be used as Relative.