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Rh a garden. 13. Are there flowers in your garden? 14. In my garden (there) are three trees.

Ni, or san nin, for numbers of persons. Hiki, piki, or biki, for number of quadrupeds; as, Uma san biki, three horses; wa, or ba, pa, for birds.

Tori san ba, or zit pa, three or ten birds. Biki or hiki, wa, ba, or pa, are placed after as well as before nouns which they qualify.

Anata no niwa ni tori ga san ba orimasu. There are three birds in your garden. 1. Anata no niwa ni tori ga orimasu ka. 2. Watakusi no niwa ni tori ga san ba orimasu. 3. Ike ni kamo ga san ba orimasu. 4. Anata no iye ni neko ga orimasu ka. 5. Watakusi no iye ni neko ga si hiki orimasu. 6. Watakusi wa suzume wo go wa mimasita. 7. Anatagata wa watakusi no inu wo mimasita ka. 8. Watakusi domo wa anato no neko wo mimasita. 9. Anata no ike ni kamo ga san ba orimasita. 10. Kono kawa ni sakana ga