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Rh their nouns ; but အများ, from များ to be many, follows the general rule, as အများသောဆရာ, or ဆရာအများ, many teachers.

. The imperfect degree of comparison is sometimes made by shortening and reduplicating the verbal root, as ချို့ချို့, sweetish, from ချို, to be sweet, ခခ, bitterish, from ခါး, to be bitter; sometimes, by affixing ခပ်, to the root reduplicated, or reduplicated and shortened, as ခပ်ဆိုးဆိုး, rather bad; and sometimes by affixing reduplicated chiming increments, having တ for an initial to the root in its natural state or shortened, to express a slight degree of the quality, as ချိုတိုတို, or ချို့တို့တို့, slightly sweetish.

. The comparative degree is made, by means of the secondary noun အထက်, or အောက်, and verb, as အိမ်&#8203;ထက်&#8203;ကြီး&#8203;သည်, to be greater than the house, or by a circumlocution of verbs, as သာ&#8203;၍&#8203;ကြီး&#8203;သည်, to exceed in greatness, or be greater.

. The superlative degree is made, by prefixing အ, and affixing ဆုံး to the verbal root, as အမြတ်ဆုံး, most excellent; and is joined to nouns according to the general rule, as အမြတ်&#8203;ဆုံး&#8203;သာ&#8203;လူ, or လူ&#8203;အမြတ်&#8203;ဆုံး, the most excellent man.

. Numerals are generally combined with a word descriptive of some quality in the noun to which they belong, and in that state are joined to nouns according to the general rule.

. If the numeral is less than ten, the auxiliary word is affixed to it (the formative အ, whenever it occurs, being dropped), as ခွက်&#8203;နှစ်လုံး, or နှစ်&#8203;လုံး&#8203;သော&#8203;ခွက်, two cups, from ခွက်, a cup, နှစ်, two, and အလုံး, round; if it is a capital number, as ten, twenty, thirty, two hundred, three hundred, &c., the auxiliary is prefixed to it, as ခွက်&#8203;အ&#8203;လုံး&#8203;နှစ်&#8203;ဆယ်, or အလုံး&#8203;နှစ်&#8203;ဆယ်&#8203;သော&#8203;ခွက်, twenty cups; and if it is a numeral, intervening between the capitals, the auxiliary is both prefixed and affixed, as ခွက်&#8203;အ&#8203;လုံး&#8203;နှစ်&#8203;ဆယ်&#8203;နှစ်&#8203;လုံး, or အလုံး&#8203;နှစ်&#8203;ဆယ်&#8203;နှစ်&#8203;လုံး&#8203;သော&#8203;ခွက်, twenty-two cups. But in any case in which the auxiliary is prefixed, it may be omitted, as ဆရာ&#8203;အ&#8203;ပါး&#8203;နှစ်&#8203;ဆယ်, or အပါး&#8203;နှစ်&#8203;ဆယ်&#8203;သော&#8203;ဆ&#8203;ရာ, twenty teachers, may be written ဆရာ&#8203;နှစ်&#8203;ဆယ်, or နှစ်&#8203;ဆယ်&#8203;သော&#8203;ဆ&#8203;ရာ, and ဆရာ&#8203;အ&#8203;ပါး&#8203;နှစ်&#8203;ဆယ်&#8203;နှစ်&#8203;ပါး, or အပါး&#8203;နှစ်&#8203;ဆယ်&#8203;နှင်&#4151;&#8203;ပါး&#8203;သော&#8203;ဆ&#8203;ရာ, twenty-two