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40 AX ACSTRALIAX LASGGAGE.
10. ADVERBS.
There are numerous aclvcrbs in the language, but the most
common are :-
Adee~bs of Ti'iilze.
Grekkald, ' to-morrow.'
Palli, ‘ while,' ' by-and-by.'
Gurintand, ' often.'
R~UTTU~, ‘ a long time ago.'
Hik, ' now.'
Ugunuk, ' when ' (relative).
ICaldan, ' a long time.'
Knrlo, ' to-clay.'
I17ataggrau, ' yesterday.'
Paral, ' when ' (interrogatire).
Tun, 'by-and-by.'
AJcerbs of .iiTegntiolz.
Nowaiye, ' none.'
No~vaiye ellin, ' no more.' Tarno, ' no '; ' not.'
Tarnalin, ' not yet.'
Tauo, ' don't ' (imperati\-e).
Tarno el, ' clon't' (do it).
Tarnalo, ' no inore '; ' nerer.'
Adverbs of Place.
Ainu, ' by (at) that place.' Yak, yauo, ' where to.'
Sklii, dye, alyikke, ' here.' Pa@, ' where'?
,tlyenik, ‘ this place here.' Tagalli, ' where is he'?
Euzru, ‘ where ' (relative). Tarnd, 'whence'?
ICn-un, ' far off.'
Tarnd inde, ' whence thou'?
Ondu, ' over there.'
Tarnd ande, ' vhither thou'?
l?xccnzl~les of the use of Adverbs.
Yak a1 incle tantani, '--here will you sleep'; gurlug aiau,
' at-the-place-where the hill ' (is) ; manti kiuau tantani ap,
' the hut where I shall sleep '; gap tagulun ku-un, ' I stand far
off'; kegk tagulun ku-u, 'they two stand far off'; liar
tagulun kuar-un, 'they stand far off.'
The word wuny e, 'then,' usually coalesces with the pronoun
or verb-sign which follows it ; as, wun y ap, ' then I '; wunyar,
'then they1; wunyel itye, 'then will he.'
The norcls uk, ukke, luk, lun, 'so,' 'thus,' denote rese~~zbln~~ce;
as,lnk u0.r lun u, 'so,' 'thus'; lug itye yarnin, 'thushespeaks';
11111 ellin, ' so being,' i.e., ' like '; luk u gge, ' like this one ';
hikkai ukke, ' this may '; hi1 amb uk, ' for this may,' i.e., 'beecause
'; lun uk, ' thus '; go uk ap, ' I go so.'
The word amb y may be translated either ' instead cf ' (preposition)
or 'because' (conjunctioil) ; as, kaldau amb, ' for a long
time'; hi1 amb uk, 'because'; pinyatowe altl anlb anaipeibcrri
means 'sugar for my tea'
11. NOTES ON SYNTAX.
1. The form of the verb is constant in its mood and tenses ;
ollly the pronoun-subjects vary.
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8. The postpositional suffixes to pronouns are all:-ays attachecl
to the accusative case ; as, kan-ail:, ' to them.'
3. Pronominal acljectires are a!\:-ays r'eclined with their :-,ouns ;
as, kin-an y ir-agk t ald u in nncl-ak l;, ' to his house '; all& so :dso
hililiai korn, 'this man,' harnalcar kornar, ' tliese men';
ornagk nnggugai, 'in that day.'
4. Ths clirninutive is ylacccl after tile case-ending of the noun ;
as, porl-alcl-01, ' of a little child '; porl-ar-01, ' of little chilclren.'
5. IVhen an acljective and its noun are declined together, tlit.
case-encling is attached only to the arljectil-e ; nu &gar-ald lioril,
'of a gooel man.'
6. The post-positioil -u ra m 13, ' for the purpose of,' is nl~r-nys
attached to any vzrb mltich is put in the infinitive by anotller
verb ; as, yempir i! anaSli nalckari tali-~~ail~b, 'he prc me
a cluck to eat.'
12. FORUATIOX OF 1I-02~~.
This is effected by arlcling on various terminations, sollie of \~Iiich
have alreacly been noticed :-
(1) -wallin, 'being '; as, pilgeru-~s-allin, ' greedy.'
(8) -warin, ' making'; as, ko&l;-u-1;-arin, 'sendhlg a-my from,'
from 1x0 gk, ' apart '; ana gb-mar in, 'preperinp,' ' getting rencly '
(lit., 'making towards it'), from anagli, liailngk, it~anagk, the
clatire of the pronoun it y e.
(3) -at y eri, ' belongillg to '; as, 1ao:m-aty eri, 'TI-CO~ for n fire,'
from lammin, ' carrying on the back.'
13. LIST OF PP,EPOSITIOSS, ADI-E~~s, kc.
T ~ prepositions E are used as postpositions ; those words which
in this list are preceded by n hyphen are used as affixes.
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