| Examples
: |
| Adjectives
preceding the noun : |
 n k
bsr agi-ni kk |
| It is
an incident of many years ago.’ |
kisu
by s ÛÛÛyy rh rdi |
| ‘Select
and send some books.’ |
| Adjectives
following the noun : |
b«sa
 hikla
kµnµy
huk ta g |
| ‘The
two young children worked on ‘huk’. |
b bini yarni bahank naythgmabay
kay akkha |
| ‘He
is married to his friend’s beautiful younger sister.’ |
| The derived
adjectives are derived from verbs by prefixing the pronominal prefix
kV- to the verbs, or by compounding verbs. |
| Examples
: |
|
Prefixing
kV-
|
|
Compounding
|
|
|
ki-si
|
‘wet’
|
|
‘happy’
|
k-lk
|
‘tall’
|
nay-thk
|
‘beautiful’
|
|
|
kµ-thµy ‘dead’
|
|
|
k-tr
|
‘big’
|
|
|
|
ku-thu
|
‘deep’
|
|
|
|
|
| 3.3.22.
The adverbs : |
| There
are two types of adverbs : Primary and derived. |
| The
primary adverbs may be a part of the verb stem or independent.
The adverbs that are part of the verb stem, denote the manner in which
the action is performed. |
| Examples
: |
a-hÛÛr
|
‘eat
from a distance’
|
|
|
‘eat
secretively’
|
a- &a ‘eat repeatedly’
|
|
a-thk
|
‘eat
happily’
|
a-thar
|
‘offer
to eat with contempt’
|
|
|
| There
are other primary adverbs which occur independently and are acccompanied
with the verbal forms. |
| Examples
: |
|
dakti
|
phaydi
|
‘Come
quickly (immediately).’
|
dr-dr
|
khardi
|
‘Run
hurriedly.’
|
|
phru-phru
|
tdi
|
‘Be
quiet.’
|
|
|
| The second
type of adverbs are derived form adjectives by adding-khay to the
adjectival base. |
| Examples
: |
sri-sri-khay
|
sµydi
|
‘write
quietly’
|
tp
ha-khay
|
phayka
|
‘come
quickly’
|
|
|
| 3.4.
The Particle : |
| There
are some morphemes which are added to the root belonging to both the
classes viz., the noun class and the verb class. Some of these
morphemes denote emphasis of an event, or thing |
