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CHAPTER FOURTH.
ADJECTIVES.
OF దేశ్యము ADJECTIVES.
The l#bo adjectives are indeclinable, varying neither in gender, in number, nor in case; but dependent for these distinctions upon the substantive nouns or pronouns, to some of which they are invariably prefixed. The following list, containing a few of the most common, will shew that they generally terminate in the short vowels or v>.
Example | cold. | Example | strong, hard. |
Example | small. | Example | soft. |
Example | great. | Example | dirty. |
Example | little. | Example | damp, wet. |
Example | white. | Example | blind. |
Example | black. | Example | bitter. |
Example | red. | Example | beautiful. |
Example | yellow. | Example | tall, long. |
Example | bad. | Example | slack. |
Example | old. | Example | broad. |
Example | new. | Example | heavy. |
Example | male. | Example | sweet. |
Example | aged, old. | Example | sour. |
Example | short, small. | Example | true. |
Example | good. | Example | sharp. |