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;68 pronouns. § 28tives ; they are chiefly diminutives ; as, dulciculus, sweetishduriusculus, somewhat hard, &c, from dulcis, durus, &c.3. Adjectives derived from verbs are called Verbal adjectives.They commonly end in bundus, idus, bills, ilis, itius,and ax; as erraburi dus, giv en to wandering ;rapidus, rapid ;credibilis, credible ;fexibilis, easy to be bent;jictitius, feigned ;cdpax, capacious, &c, from erro, rapio, credo, fee to, jingu,capio, &c.4. Participles divested of the idea of time, and expressingmerely a quality, become adjectives, and are capable of comparison; as, avians, fond of; amantior, amantissimus ; doctus,learned ; doctior, doctissimus. These are called Participialadjectives.Adjectives are als€> derived from adverbs and prepositionsas, hodiernus, contrarius, &c, from hodie, contra, &c.115.—A Pronoun isnoun.§ 28. PRONOUNS.a word used instead of a116.—In Latin, there are eighteen simple pronouns, namely,Eyo, tu, sui; ille, ipse, iste, hie, is, quis, qui ; mens, luus, suus,noster, vester ; nostras, vestras and cujas.Of these, Ego, tu, sui, are substantive or personal pronouns,the rest are adjectives.SUBSTANTIVE OR PERSONAL PRONOUNS.117.—The Substantive or Personal pronouns, have the sameaccidents as nouns (34) ; in construction, they take the genderand number of the nouns for which they stand, and are thusdeclined :Ego, /, First Person, Masc. or Fern.Singular.Plural.N. ego, i, N. nos, we,G. mei, of me, 67. nostrum, or nostri,* of us,D. mihi, to me, D. nobis, to us,Ac. me, me, Ac. nos, us,V.Ab. me,ywith, &c., me, Ab. nobis, with, &c, us.* Nostrmn, mstrum, G. subjective ; nostri, vestri, G. objective. 334.