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 50 TELOOGOO GRAMMAR.

THIRD DECLENSION.

This declension includes all other regular nouns, of every gender, not com- prized in the two foregoing declensions ; it comprizes, therefore, all regular neuters in &>, all regular nouns in S5w O f two syllables only, or of more than two syllables when the 5&> is not preceded by *" "= or ; in short, it com- prizes every regular noun whether masculine, feminine, or neuter, provided it be not a masculine in c &o, or a feminine or neuter, of more than two sylla- bles, in ^sSx), ~= 5&> or S&>-

The inflexion singular is always the same as ths nominative singular ; thus, nom. sing. > to the nominative singular, except to those ending in short s which change the final 9 into *o ex> as, nom. sing. )8* a child, nom. plu. C)^ex> children ; CJ (j^ ^g but as the noun "_Q a knife or sword, ends in 9, it makes 3" e&gx) swords, in the nominative plural, never ST^exj*

The following is an example of this declension, declined according to the usual arrangement of six cases. SINGULAR. N. a child. G. or Acc. V. Ab. &c o child. N. G. 1). PLURAL. children. or >|e)C&30' of children. , .....to children. Acc. OSSoix> &c .children- V- SsSera^r, ....o children. (A* Ab. '