parts of speech—adjectives.
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pronominal adjectives.
§82. The following pronominals are prefixed to their nouns, in some cases with, and in some without a connective,—ရော, နင့်, or နံ့, being occasionally substituted for သော, before words of time:—
- ဤ, this, as ဤလူ, this man; ဤသည်နေ့, this day.
- သည်, this.
- ထို, that, as ထိုသူ, that person; ထိုသောအခါ, or ထိုရောအခါ, that time.
- ယင်း, that,—infrequent.
- အနည်, this or that,—infrequent.
- ဟို and ဟုပ်, that,—colloquial.
- အဘယ်, or ဘယ်, what?—occasionally contracted to အ, before သူ, as အသူ, for အသယ်သူ, who?—and to ဘ before ဟာ, as ဘဟာ, what thing? In negative sentences, it combines with the negative particle သင်း, to signify none, as ဘယ်သူမရှိ there is no one. When combined with သင်း, that (thing), it means which; as အဘယ်သင်း, which (thing)?
- အတီ, what?—infrequent.
- အကြင်, whatever.
- မည်, what? whatever. N. B. မည်သည်, ditto, is directly prefixed or affixed.
- ဤမည်, such, referring to what has been specified. [Its most common use appears to be indefinite, such and such, such or such. St.]
§83. 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, အသို့, ဘယ်သို့, မည်သို့, of what sort.
- အကြင်သို့, of whatever sort.
- ကဲသို့, and its compounds, such as.
