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Rh The following pronominals are prefixed to their nouns, with the usual connectives:—

သို့, such.

ဤသို့, သည်သို့ such, of this sort.

ထိုသို့, ယင်းသို့, such, of that sort.

အဘယ်သို့, (by contraction အသို့,) ဘယ်&#8203;သို့, မည်&#8203;သို့, of what sort?

အကြင်သို့, of whatever sort.

ကဲ့သို့, and its compounds, such as.

The following, viz. အ&#8203;ချို့, and တ&#8203;ချို့, some, အ&#8203;ချား, တ&#8203;ချား, and တ&#8203;ပါး, other, ခပ်&#8203;သိမ်း and အ&#8203;လုံး&#8203;စုံ, all, are joined to their nouns, according to the general rule, except that when prefixed, the connective is, in some instances, omitted. ခပ်&#8203;သိမ်း&#8203;စုံ, all, is prefixed with a connective.

တထူး, other, တ&#8203;ကာ, and အား&#8203;လုံး, all, and အ&#8203;လုံး, 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 အိမ်&#8203;လုံး, or အိမ်&#8203;စ&#8203;လုံး, the whole house, အိမ်&#8203;သုံး&#8203;ခု&#8203;လုံး, or အိမ်&#8203;သုံး&#8203;ခု&#8203;စ&#8203;လုံး, all the three houses. When affixed to a singular noun, the compound occasionally takes the numeral တ, one, before it,