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 A

few masculine nouns follow this form,

ceiving in the sing, the suffix

belonging to them must

tives

re-

ta although adjec be of the

still

masculine form. Thus bohbo^a-ta the goi^emor,

but ^cEf w-o BOHBO^A the goocl go^i^mor

manner

In like

,

few plurals of masc. or fem,

a

nouns, terminating irregularly in a or a take the

TA

suffix

like neuters, as

irreg. plur

kjatia-ta, the brothers^

from KjaT'a,

A paradigm

is

not needed for neuter nouns, alike inform. Theplural

is

generally formed by changing final Eor ointo

a^

since the cases are

all

asAHLJE'TO, AHLJA-TA, gCTECTBC-TO, gCTECTBA-

TA,and

il

or

into

MEN*IA-TA. Rarely

ATA, and

still

U

or /ft,as 3NAMENY£-TO,3NA-

instead of a the plural takes

moie

rarely

TO, nOAETA-TA, ^JEBO-TO

eca

or

HijjA, as

^JEBECJ?-TO

roae-

,

KJ»AH-0

§ 5 Adjectives, Adjectives have, like

nouns,

,

(masc. in the sing.) KfA'HipA-TA,

a definite is

in

and an indefinite form. The latter which

the radical form terminates in

yn

the former

(or with certain consonants preceding, in

ih) which however

is

ordinarily corrupted, in

imitation of the substantives, into wo.

In

some

parts of Bulgaria

however common

usage makes these nouns femiuine, as T;RfNOBCKATA jdoHBO^A, thQ Governor of Ternova,