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24. The following, viz. အချို့ and တချို့, some, အခြား, တခြား, and တပါး, other, ခပ်&#8203;သိမ်း and အလုံးစုံ, all, are joined to their nouns according to the general rule, except that when prefixed, the connective is in some instances omitted. ခပ်&#8203;သိမ်းစုံ, all is prefixed with a connective.

. တထူး, other, တကာ, many, အားလုံး all, and အလုံး, all, the whole, are uniformly affixed.

. အလုံး, when affixed to a noun or a numeral auxiliary, frequently drops the အ, or changes it to စ, as အိမ်လုံး, or အိမ်&#8203;စလုံး, the whole house; အိမ်&#8203;သုံး&#8203;ခုလုံး, or အိမ်&#8203;သုံး&#8203;ခု&#8203;စလုံး, all the three houses. When affixed to a singular noun, the compound occasionally takes the numeral တ, one, before it, without a change of meaning, as တအိမ်လုံး, or တအိမ်&#8203;စလုံး, the whole house; သင်္ဘော&#8203;တ&#8203;စင်းလုံး, the whole ship.

. ဘယ်&#8203;နှစ်, how many? is directly prefixed to numeral auxiliaries, or words denoting a part or quantity of a thing, as သရက်&#8203;သီး&#8203;ဘယ်&#8203;နှစ်လုံး, how many mangoes? သရက်&#8203;သီး&#8203;ဘယ်&#8203;နှစ်&#8203;တင်း, How many baskets of mangoes?

. ''So much, How much? &c., are expressed by combining pronominals with such nouns as အမျှ, အလောက်, &c., denoting quantity, as ဤမျှ, so much, ဘယ်&#8203;လောက်, ဘယ်&#8203;မျှ&#8203;လောက်, how much?''

. Some pronominals are doubled to form a kind of plural, as ထိုထို&#8203;ဥစ္စာ, those goods.

. Pronominals are frequently used substantively, and in that character admit the noun affixes.

. Verbal adjectives are made by joining verbal roots to nouns, according to the general rule, as မြတ်&#8203;သောလူ, or လူမြတ်, an excellent man; but as the verbal root, when prefixed, is susceptible of the accidents of verbs, it is more correct to regard that construction as participial. See under participial affixes, §114.

. Verbal adjectives are also formed from verbal roots by prefixing အ, as အသစ်, new, and by reduplicating the root, as ကောင်း&#8203;ကောင်း, good. Such adjectives are commonly affixed to