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Some nouns have been noted which do not inflect for number and case forms and thus do not fall in any of the above mentioned groups. Such nouns belong to the mass nouns and are masculine in gender. A few examples are :
 

pò  

‘chaff’

kà

‘grass’

prse 

‘sweat’

dUd 

‘milk’

pa

‘water’

Besides the above mentioned inflexion in which the postpositions occur after the oblique forms of the nouns to denote various case functions (cf.pp.110), there are two suffixes {-ũ} and {-} used for ablative and locative respectively. These suffixes do occur after certain postpositions as well as adverbs to denote the same functions.
 

Examples are :
 

Ablative {-ũ} with Noun Stems
 

wo 

krũ

ayo 

‘He 

came 

from 

home’

2-3  2
 

màro

gero 

skulũ

ayo

‘My 

son 

has 

come 

from 

the  school’
3-4 5-6  1  2  6  3
 

pke  smoũ mUũgo  ‘I  shall  return  tomorrow  from  Samote’  (place  name)

2

3-4

5  2  3

Ablative {
ũ} with Postposition
 

pxũ  

mera

sIr

‘The 

bird’ flew  above  my  head

1

4-5  6-7  4-5  3
                   wrũ           U    geyo 

m

ya 

ktab 

Us 

 koũ ũ  

a¸

‘I

 took 

this 

book

 from  him’
1  2  3  4  5-6  1  7  2  3  5-6  4
Ablative {ũ } with Adverbs
 

ndrũ

kyũ

ayo 

‘Why 

did 

you 

come 

from 

inside’

2-3  4  5  2

Locative {-} with Noun Stems

 

wo 

mdrs  

geyo  ‘He  went  to  the  school’

2-3  2
 

wo

drya 

g  

dnd  

bţh

E€ 

‘He 

is 

sitting

at 

the 

bank  of  the  river’

1

 2  3  4-  6  1 4  3  2
 
Locative {-} with Postposition
 

 mera 

ko  

b

‘You 

sit 

near 

me’

 2 

3-4  3-4  2
 

wa

ap

dost 

ko 

g

th

‘She 

had 

gone 

to  her  friend’

1

 2 

4-5  6  4-5  3

Infinitive stems formed by {--} are inflected for direct and oblique forms. Direct forms mark the distinction of both the genders-masculine and feminine and numbers-singular and plural and in oblique, infinitive stems take {f}. Like nouns oblique infinitive can also take the postpositions.

 

 
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