ava    moe    alla   1          2         3

‘He    is    not    a    boy’  1            3             2

ave    enna    pai    alla   1       2          3        4

‘It    is    not    my    work’  1           4       2       3

na:nu    pireku    po:vaka:i    1          2        3        4

‘I    did    not    go    to    the    house’  1           4       3                      2

na:nu    na:e    banjeka:i   1           2           3       4

‘I    will    not    come    tomorrow’  1             4        3           2

(xv)    Comparative sentences

The sentences of this type are formed by suffixing -indu to one of the nouns under comparison. The suffix -indu is in fixed to the dative stem of the noun.

enna    pire    avena    pirekindu    baliye   1        2         3            4            5

‘My    house    is    bigger    than    his    house’  1        2                 5                  3         4