အင်္ဂလိတ်ပြည်, England, the country of the English; မြမ္မာ, a Burmese, မြမ္မာစကား, the Burmese language; ရန်ကုန်, Rangoon, the town of Rangoon, ရန်ကုန်မြို့ ditto, ရန်ကုန်သား, or ရန်ကုန်မြို့သား, a son or native of Rangoon.
2. Common nouns used to qualify a following noun, as ရွှေ, gold, ရွှေဖလား, a golden cup; မြောက် the north, မြောက်လမ်, the northern path; အညာ the upper part, (of a country,) အညာသား, an up-country person.
3. Names of trees, plants, and their parts, which are only used in combination with a following noun; thus from သံလွင်, the olive, are formed သံလွင်ပင်, an olive tree, သံလွင်ပွင့် an olive blossom, သံလွင်သီး, an olive (the fruit), သံလွင်ရွက်, an olive leaf.
VERBS.
Verbs are of two kinds, transitive, which express actions that pass from the agent to the object, as ရိုက်သည်, to strike, ချစ်သည်, to love; and intransitive, which express being, or some state of being, or an action which is confined to the agent,
