arlocho ba -phli |
‘four women’ |
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2)
|
Animate: The
animate nouns take the classifier jon. |
| methan i-jon |
‘one dog’ |
| vo jon-kep |
‘ten birds’ |
|
3)
|
pak occurs
with nouns which refer to flat objects. |
| arvo i-pak |
‘one leaf’ |
| coy pak-ni |
‘two shirts’ |
| jal pak-thom |
‘three fishing baskets’ |
| bikron e-pak |
‘one betal leaf’ |
| kitap pak-thom |
‘three books’ |
|
4)
|
je occurs with nouns which denote long and flexible objects. |
| hon je-thom
|
‘two strings of thread’ |
| i mum
je-ni |
‘two blades of moustache’ |
| phela
e-je |
‘one thatching grass’ |
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5)
|
ho occurs with long and hard objects |
| the
ho-ni |
‘two firewoods’ |
| ri i-ho |
‘one hand’ |
| ke ho-thom
|
‘three legs’ |
| cho i-ho |
‘one tooth’ |
| arnan ho-thom
|
‘three finger rings’ |
|
6)
|
pla occurs with nouns having flat top and bottom surfaces. |
| chabon e-pla
|
‘one soap’ |
| him pla
-ni |
‘two flat cakes’ |
|
7) dum occurs with round objects without any hollow
inside.
| hon dum-ni |
‘two balls of thread’ |
| chabon dum-thom |
‘three round soaps’ |
| beteri i-dum |
‘one battery’ |
|
8)
|
ro occurs with trees and big plants and creepers. |
| thepi
ro-phokep |
‘fifty trees’ |
| rika
i-ro |
‘one big creeper’ |
| bap ero |
‘one tree-like grass’ |
|
9)
|
the occurs
with fruits and the word for ‘word’. |
| phiruy athe theni |
‘two potatoes’ |
| lothe theni |
‘two bananas’ |
| tharve thethom |
‘three mangoes’ |
| lam i-the |
‘a word’ |
|
10)
|
phu is used
with flowers. |
|
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11)
|
pum is used
with egg and a kind of bamboo. |
| voti pum-ikoyrapho
|
‘twentyfive eggs’ |
cek e-pum
|
‘one bamboo (a variety)’
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