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Rh without a change of meaning, as တ&#8203;အိမ်&#8203;လုံး, or တ&#8203;အိမ်&#8203;စ&#8203;လုံး, the whole house, သင်္ဘော&#8203;တ&#8203;စင်း&#8203;လုံး the whole ship.

ဘယ်နှစ်, how many? is directly prefixed to numeral auxiliaries, or words denoting a part or quantity of a thing, as သ&#8203;ရက်&#8203;သီး&#8203;ဘယ်&#8203;နှစ်&#8203;လုံး, how many mangoes? သ&#8203;ရက်&#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 အ&#8203;မျှ, အ&#8203;လောက်, &c. denoting quantity, as ဤ&#8203;မျှ, so much, ဘယ်&#8203;လောက်, ဘယ်&#8203;မျှ&#8203;လောက်, how much?

Some pronominals are doubled to form a kind of plural, as ထို&#8203;ထို&#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;သော&#8203;လူ, or လူ&#8203;မြတ်, 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.

Verbal adjectives are also formed from verbal