66. When the numeral 25 oka, a or one, is used as an adjective, it is placed before the noun it qualifies unchanged,

irrespective of gender, thus: 25592 oka manishi, a man; but, when it is used as a substantive, it has a separate form for each gender, and is declined like a noun.

three, ∞ nálugu, four, become 25 iddaru, ** mugguru, and Sexx naluguru in the masculine and feminine; and the remaining numbers are rendered masculine or feminine by affixing either ∞ guru or Lod mandi to the neuter. Thus: & aiduguru, five persons, God wñanges árumandi manushyulu, six men.

68. The masculine and feminine plurals thus formed in ru are declinable.

Nominative

As:

Inflexion

Objective

ఇద్దరిని iddarini 'ముగ్గురిని muggurini

69. In counting 'one' after a higher figure, the noun is put in the singular. Thus: 238325×5 iruvai vaka gurramu, twenty-one horses.

renḍu, múḍu, núru, two, three,

and a hundred, take an inflexion in 3 ti, o renți, 3 múți, 5 núți, to which some postpositions can be affixed. Thus : నూటికి వకరూపాయి చొప్పున వడ్డి, nitiki valca ripiy tsoppuna vaddi, interest at one per cent.

71. In composition og veyy, a thousand, has 2nni added to it, and ∞ núru, a hundred, is put into the locative inflexion. Thus: ogé ex veyynni-núțanalubhai, a thousand, one hundred and forty.

(b.) ORDINAL NUMERALS.

72. The ordinal numerals are formed by changing the final vowel of the neuter cardinal numeral into ó. Záva is sometimes used in books and in polished conversation. Thus : రెండో or రెండవ rendo or rendava, second; మూడో

múḍó; ∞ nálugó; x aidó ; &c.

73. The only exception is the first cardinal, 253 okați, which has an entirely different word substituted for it, namely, modați, unless another number precedes it, when 25 okató is used. Thus: 233es iruvai vokató, the twenty-first. ఈ వరసలో మొదటిమనిషి i rarasali modati manishi, the first man in this row.

(7.) VERBS.

74. The structure of the Telugu verb is strictly agglutinative. "The particles," says Bishop Caldwell in writing of the verb in all the Dravidian languages, "which express

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