A grammar of the Malayan language, with an introduction and praxis..

86 A GRAMMAR OF THE
participial noun, as j^^o o ^^J jU- j_i_ cjlj harang tang jadi dmigan de
diris any (grain) produced by irrigation ; ,^ls^ J ^^J dangan de sahaja-
nia with design, purposely ; JL^ ^Apj^aJs j ^^j
dangan de kesnd-kan-nia
knmbdli with the intention of returning ; ^^j ^1 e-Jjs j_j 'ij^l u:-^ J JJ;J
deri-pada de Uat drang tang halat akan diya from being seen by men
who are not related to her; J^ J t^^;^
kdrna dejiial for the purpose
of selling or of sale.
A peculiar change in the construction attends the employment of this
particle, viz. that the pronoun personal or other agent is made uni-
formly to follow the verb, and the subject generally to precede it and
the particle, as -\j ijy^ j k_..v«A CS^ jeka amha de suruh raja if the
king should order me ; ^^^ ^^U j jjlJ ^^f
best his skin the iron would not penetrate.
kulit-nia tidak de mdkan
The following sentence containing examples of several forms or in-
flexions of the verb, may serve to exercise the learner in the application
of some of the foregoing rules: o