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42 or to be eaten; ကြည့်&#8203;ဘို့ what is to be looked at; ပြုရန်, what is to be done.

4th. The verbal in ဖွယ် or ဘွယ်, sometimes စချင်&#8203;ဘွယ်, from ဘဖွယ်, what is suitable, denotes what is fit for, adapted to, or worthy of some use or purpose, as စား&#8203;ဘွယ်, what is good to eat, an eatable; အံ့ဘွယ် what is wonderful; ချစ်&#8203;စ&#8203;ချင်&#8203;ဘွယ်, what is lovely. But this verbal seems frequently to partake of the nature of an adjective.

N. B. The terminations ခမန်း, or ဂမန်း (according to one acceptation), လိ and လိလိ, are of similar import with the termination ဖွယ် but used in a bad sense only. Several of these are sometimes combined, as ရွံစလိ (စ euphonic), ရွံစ&#8203;ဖွယ်လိ, ရွံဖွယ်&#8203;လိ&#8203;ခ&#8203;မန်း, what is disgusting.

The terminations ခမန်း (according to another acceptation), ဘိနန်း, or ဘနန်း and မတတ်, form verbals denoting nearness of accomplishment, occasionally taking လု before them, as လောင်&#8203;ခ&#8203;မန်း or လောင်&#8203;လု&#8203;ခ&#8203;မန်း, what is near burning; မြုပ်&#8203;လု&#8203;မ&#8203;တတ်, what is near sinking; ကုန်&#8203;မ&#8203;တတ်, nearly the whole.

The termination နိုး, နိုးနိုး, or စနိုး, followed by a verb expressive of opinion, denotes, what is likely to be or to take place, sometimes admitting an affix of tense between itself and the root, as သင်္ဘော&#8203;ရောက်&#8203;နိုး&#8203;နိုး&#8203;ထင်&#8203;သည်, or ရောက်&#8203;မည်&#8203;နိုး&#8203;နိုး&#8203;ထင်&#8203;သည်, he thinks that the ship will probably arrive.

5th. There are several other verbals, formed from nouns, which being obsolete, or never occurring in their full form, or in any other connection, connotcannot [sic] be so satisfactorily analyzed, as most of the preceding; thus the verbal in တုန်း, perhaps from အထုန်း, time being, denotes the time of action or being, as သွား&#8203;တုန်း&#8203;တွင်, or သွား&#8203;တုန်း&#8203;ခါ, equivalent to သွား&#8203;စည်&#8203;တွင်, or သွား&#8203;စည်&#8203;အ&#8203;ခါ, the time of going, while going.

The verbal in ရုံ, perhaps from အရုံ, just so much and no more, confines the action or being to what is expressed by the root, as ပြော&#8203;ရုံ&#8203;ပြု&#8203;သည်, or ပြော&#8203;ရုံ&#8203;မျှ&#8203;ပြု&#8203;သည်, he just speaks, i. e. does no more than speaking.