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''The]S:J-184] GENDEK. COMPOUNDS I'Boh. Neuter are all stems formed ^\•itll is, tva, tvana, aiul,unless adjectives^ or agent nouns,' those formed with ana,as, us.c. Masculine are (in so far as not used adjectivally) allstems formed with the sutlixes yu, va ; ayana, i,^ ka,bha, la.d. Masc. or fern, are stems formed with the suffixes ni,nil, mi, tr^ :also stems formed with the bare root.''e. Masc. or neut. are stems formed with the suffixes a,ta, tha, na, vma, ma, ya, ra, tya, tra, tu, an, man, van ;also adjectives formed with in, vin, ina, iya, tana, tama,tara, maya, mant, vant./. Masc, fem., neut. are stems formed with i or u.B. Compounds.184. I. Verbal Compounds are formed by combiningroots with twenty prepositions and a few adverbs. Thecompound verb (which, however, in finite forms is actuallycompounded only in subordinate clauses when the j) repositionimmediately precedes the verb) is conjugated like the simpleverb. Thus gam go combines with sam together to sam-gamgo together, unite ;3. s. sam-gachati. The compound rootcan l)e used to form nominal stems by means of the primarysuffixes enumerated above (182, 1); e.g. sam-gam-a m.union.a. The prepositions which are compounded with roots arethe following acha : to/cards, ati begoiul, adhi ujjon, anuafter, antar between, apa atrag, api on, abhi against, avadown,a ^near, iid up, ni down, into, nis out, para away,^When they are of course m. as well as n.-When they are m.•*^^In patronymics.Stems in tr are always m. when they are agent nouns.These when used as adj. are occasionally, neuter.preposition a reverses the sense of \erb8 of going or giving ;e. g. a-gara cume, a-da take.