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Rh in speaking becomingly of deities, kings, or any exalted personages, as မိန့်&#8203;တော်&#8203;မူ&#8203;သည်, (the deity or king) speaks, literally, does divine or royal speaking, မိန့်&#8203;တော်&#8203;မ&#8203;မူ, he speaks not.

Most verbal nouns retain the same power of government as their verbs, that is, cause the preceding noun to take the same affix, as their verbs do, as ဇာတ်&#8203;ကို&#8203;ဟော&#8203;စ&#8203;ပြု&#8203;သည်, he makes a beginning of rehearsing the zat, ဇာတ်&#8203;ကို&#8203;ဟော&#8203;တော်&#8203;မူ&#8203;သည်, he rehearses the zat, or he does rehearsing the zat; but some, particularly the verbal in ခြင်း, govern the preceding noun in the possessive, as ဇာတ်&#8203;၏&#8203;ဟော&#8203;ခြင်း, the rehearsing of the zat.

ADVERBS.

Adverbs are of nine kinds, viz:—

1. Adverbs proper, as ဧကန်, certainly, အ&#8203;လ&#8203;ကား, in vain, လား&#8203;လား, an intensive before a negative, as လား&#8203;လား&#8203;မ&#8203;ပြော, he says nothing at all, ခပ်, rather, prefixed to adjectives, formed from verbal roots by reduplication.

2. Pronominal adjectives used to modify a following verb, as အ&#8203;ဘယ်&#8203;သို့&#8203;နေ&#8203;သ&#8203;နည်း, how does (he) remain? ထို&#8203;သို့&#8203;နေ&#8203;သည်, (he) remains thus; or combined with a secondary noun and similarly