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 OF ADJECTIVES. 87

or &OM& 6oos5"o&3 to be affixed to the nominative singular, if the substantive be neuter; and if the substantive be masculine or feminine, either to the singular or plural nominative, according as the substantive may be in the singular or plural number: feminine ^3&S&3 adjectives in v, before affixing these par- ticles, previously change the final ^into oiyex) in the singular, and ^Tfo or x3~5"ofl in the plural, from the word *ex3, denoting a female ; thus, por ox>o*& a handsome house or houses, handsome men, C .1 _ } a handsome z0oman,<&o&Ty*o^2 ; ooo?5 jo ex> or 8* OXJJ5", ro .^xD handsome women. ; thus, we may say #tf#) or 7^5^o^)^ewo or sSew&ew a melli-fluent expression or expressions (literally, words full of quintessence.)

Sanscrit adjectives ending in the terminations o^el and v>cS, when adopted into Teloogoo,change them,in the masculine gender toS5"o&cband3fc&x~ ^b; in the feminine, to S5oe&TT > ex> and 5fcoe^)"C~'cx ) or 55" and 5fo) ; and in the neuter gender, to S^otf o$x> and SSoo^sSix), or o?T) and 55b^o.

EXAMPLES.

Crude. Adjective. Masculine. Feminine. Neuter. { r ...sensible ....... ax5as^oQbc^ < ^ 1 > C tf T. I f

adjectives, preceding #e^3&S&o substantives, often drop all their Teloogoo terminations, and are compounded with the substantive in their uninflected or crude state, according to the rules of Sanscrit grammar ; thus,