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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, (by contraction အသို့,) ဘယ်​သို့, မည်​သို့, of what sort?

အကြင်သို့, of whatever sort.

ကဲ့သို့, and its compounds, such as.

The following, viz. အ​ချို့, and တ​ချို့, some, အ​ချား, တ​ချား, and တ​ပါး, other, ခပ်​သိမ်း and အ​လုံး​စုံ, all, are joined to their nouns, according to the general rule, except that when prefixed, the connective is, in some instances, omitted. ခပ်​သိမ်း​စုံ, all, is prefixed with a connective.

တထူး, other, တ​ကာ, and အား​လုံး, all, and အ​လုံး, all, the whole, are uniformly affixed.

အလုံး, when affixed to a noun, or a numeral, auxiliary, frequently drops the အ, or changes it to စ, as အိမ်​လုံး, or အိမ်​စ​လုံး, the whole house, အိမ်​သုံး​ခု​လုံး, or အိမ်​သုံး​ခု​စ​လုံး, all the three houses. When affixed to a singular noun, the compound occasionally takes the numeral တ, one, before it,