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‘India
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is
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a
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big
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country
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which
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has
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many
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languages’ |
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5 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
6-7 |
-11 |
8-9 |
10 |
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(In the above sentences (1) and (2) /wo/ ‘he/ jIs/ a relative pronoun
are used in place of /mero babo/ ‘my father’ and /Ìnd stan/
‘country’ noun phrases of the preceding clauses refer to them).
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Indefinte Pronouns :
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Direct
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(mas.) |
koe |
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(fem.) |
kae |
koe |
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Oblique
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kIse
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kInnã
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Besides there are other indefinite pronouns /kÚj/
‘some’ /k i/
‘many’ which are not inflected for any gender-number and are used in
the sense of adjectival quantifiers. These pronouns can precede any noun
like the above mentioned indefinite pronoun but the difference is that /koe/,
/kae/ denote the indefiniteness of the noun it that /koe/, /kae/ denote
the indefiniteness of the noun it refers to where as /kÚj/,
/ki/
refer to the indefiniteness of the quantity of the noun it refers to the
indefiniteness of the quantity of the noun it refers to. And /kÚj/,
/ki/
refer to plural nouns when occur with countable nouns. Examples listed
below will make it clear.
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Ut
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kae
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geri
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 I hi
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‘I
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saw
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some
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girl
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there
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1
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2 |
3 |
4 |
5
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1 |
5 |
3 |
4 |
2 |
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koe |
wi |
y
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km |
kr
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sk€
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Anyone
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can
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do
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this
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work
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1
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2
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3 |
4 |
5 |
6
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1-2 |
6 |
5 |
3 |
4 |
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| kIse |
n€ |
y |
km
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kIyo
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‘Someone
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has
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done
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this
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work
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1
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2
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3
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4 |
5
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6 |
1-2 |
6 |
5 |
3 |
4 |
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y
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k r
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kIse
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go
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‘This
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house
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is
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somebody’
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1
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2
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3 |
4 |
5 |
1 |
2 |
5 |
3-4 |
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ye
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dand
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kInnã
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ga
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‘These
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bullocks
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are
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of
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somebody’s
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1
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2
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3 |
4 |
5 |
1 |
2 |
5 |
4 |
3 |
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ki
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j a
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aya
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‘Many
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persons
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have
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come’
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1
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2 |
3 |
4 |
1 |
2 |
4 |
3 |
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kÚj
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ja
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aya
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‘Some
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persons
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have
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come’
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1
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2 |
3 |
4 |
1 |
2 |
4 |
3 |
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wo
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kÚj
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gerã
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na
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p aw€
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‘He
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teaches
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some
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boys’
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1
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2 |
3 |
4 |
5
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6 |
1 |
5-6 |
2 |
3-4 |
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kÚj |
kéyo
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‘He
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said
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something’
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1-2
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3 |
4 |
1-2 |
4 |
3 |
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Indefinite Pronouns (Human):
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Besides there are indefinite pronouns exclusively used for for human
nouns stranger to the speaker like any other nouns and these are inflected
for both the genders-masculine and feminine like /gero/ ‘boy’ and /geri/
‘girl’ respectively. These differ from the indefinite pronouns
mentioned earlier in the sense in the sense that these don’t occur as
demostratives. These can also be treated as derived
from the koe/by
adding {-Iyo} and {-I i}
respectively. Human indefinite pronominal forms are given below:
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