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Rh modified as above, as နှစ်&#8203;ယောက်&#8203;မြောက်&#8203;သော&#8203;သား, the second son; နှစ်&#8203;ရက်&#8203;မြောက်&#8203;သော&#8203;နေ့, the second day.

. There are a few adjectives which, on account of some peculiarity, cannot be placed in either of the foregoing classes. Some of them are prefixed to their nouns, as မဟာ, great, အာ&#8203;ကာ,extraordinary; some are either prefixed or affixed, as အနန္တ, infinite, သာ&#8203;မည, ordinary; and some are affixed, as ကလေး, small; တော်, honorific, မ, principal, chief among many; ချင်း, single one, only, as တနေ့&#8203;ချင်း&#8203;တွင်, in a single day; တည်း only, no more, used with numerals, as တခု&#8203;တည်း, one only.

. Nouns used adjectively may be distributed into three classes, viz:—

1st. Names of races of men, of countries, towns, &c. when used to qualify a following noun, as အင်္ဂ&#8203;လိတ်, an Englishman, အင်္ဂ&#8203;လိတ်&#8203;လူ, ditto, အင်္ဂ&#8203;လိတ်&#8203;ပြည်, England, the country of the English; မြမ္မာ, a Burmese, မြမ္မာ&#8203;စ&#8203;ကား, the Burmese language; ရန်&#8203;ကုန်, Rangoon, the town of Rangoon, ရန်&#8203;ကုန်&#8203;မြို့, ditto ရန်&#8203;ကုန်&#8203;သား, or ရန်&#8203;ကုန်&#8203;မြို့&#8203;သား, a son, or native of Rangoon.

2nd. Common nouns used to qualify a following noun, as ရွှေ,gold, ရွှေ&#8203;ဖ&#8203;လား, a golden cup; မြောက်, the north, မြောက်&#8203;လမ်း, the northern path; အညာ, the upper part (of a country), အညာသား, an up-conntryup-country [sic] person.

3rd. Names of trees, plants, and their parts, which are only used in combination with a following noun; thus from သံလွင်, the olive, are formed သံလွင်&#8203;ပင်, an olive tree, သံလွင်&#8203;ပွင်&#4151;, an olive blossom, သံလွင်&#8203;သီး, an olive (fruit), သံလွင်&#8203;ရွက်, an olive leaf.

VERBS.

. Verbs are of two kinds, transitive, which express actions that pass from the agent to the object, as ရိုက်&#8203;သည်, to strike, ချစ်&#8203;သည်, to love; and intransitive, which express being, or some state of being, or an action which is confined to the agent, as