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Rh § II. COMPOUND ADJECTIVES.

The compound adjectives end in, , , , , , , ,. Thus:—


 * , “sweet.”, “fat.” , “clean.” , “wise.” , “lousy.” , “foolish.” , “merry.” , “eloquent.” , “bloody.”

Other adjectives appear to be transitive verbs rendered intransitive by prefixing to them, which particle gives them a reflexive force. Thus:—


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 * , “to open.”
 * , “opened;” “cleared away.”
 * , “to twist.”
 * , “twisted.”
 * , “to spread out.”
 * , “spread out.”
 * }
 * , “spread out.”
 * }

Some adjectives are simply transitive verbs rendered into the passive voice or past tense by having the particle prefixed to them. Thus:—


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 * , “to place.”
 * , “placed.”
 * , “to bite.”
 * , “bitten.”
 * , “to cleave.”
 * , “cleft.”
 * , “to jump.”
 * , “jumped.”
 * , “to say.”
 * , “spoken.”
 * }
 * , “to say.”
 * , “spoken.”
 * }
 * }

Adjectives may be made plural if necessary by suffixing the ordinary plural particle to them. Thus:—


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 * , “good,”
 * , “good.”
 * , “bad,”
 * , “bad.”
 * , “small,”
 * , “small.”
 * , “fat,”
 * , “fat.”
 * }
 * , “fat,”
 * , “fat.”
 * }
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