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 ﻿(d) After cardinal numerals, from pet onwards, when they are in the nominative and the accusative.

(e) After adverbs of quantity, as drahní lasu, much time.

(/) After adjectives, such as znalý, acquainted; chtivý, greedy ; hoden, worthy; mocen, mighty ; plný, full; zbaven, free from, and many others.

(g) With verbs expressing fear, shame, expectation, touch; verbs compounded of do and na; verbs implying necessity, or to stand in need of, as potfebovati, and the impersonal potřeba (opus est). Also the genitive of price, as kniha slojí pouhých 40 kr., the book costs exactly 40 kreuzers ; týkající se domácích veli, touching domestic matters.

(h) The genitive expresses quality, as Ulisses, král převý- borné výmluvnosti, Ulysses, a king of wonderful eloquence; Vladislav, jsa muz dobrého srdce, Vladislav, being a man of good heart.

(i) After adjectives in the comparative, unless než is inserted, when the nominative is used, as množili se rychleji než jich předchůdci, they increased more quickly than their predecessors.

(/) The genitive of the material is generally used in Čech with a preposition, as kostel od kamene, a church built of stone.

There are other uses which are familiar and need not be recapitulated here, e.g. the genitive in connexion with a noun of which it is the attribute, as ten/1 jest přítel mého otce, that man is the friend of my father.

The dative is used—

(a) To imply possession, as jest mní níco, I have something. In the Slavonic languages, as in Latin, we shall see how fre- quently it is used for the genitive.

1 In tenf we have a particle added for emphasis, ten-C It is also some- times added to verbs, as vydali', he gave out.

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