modified as above, as နှစ်ယောက်မြောက်သောသား, the second son; နှစ်ရက်မြောက်သောနေ့, the second day.
§103. There are a few adjectives which, on account of some peculiarity, cannot be placed in either of the foregoing classes. Some of them are prefixed to their nouns, as မဟာ, great, အာကာ,extraordinary; some are either prefixed or affixed, as အနန္တ, infinite, သာမည, ordinary; and some are affixed, as ကလေး, small; တော်, honorific, မ, principal, chief among many; ချင်း, single one, only, as တနေ့ချင်းတွင်, in a single day; တည်း only, no more, used with numerals, as တခုတည်း, one only.
§104. Nouns used adjectively may be distributed into three classes, viz:—
1st. Names of races of men, of countries, towns, &c. when used to qualify a following noun, as အင်္ဂလိတ်, an Englishman, အင်္ဂလိတ်လူ, ditto, အင်္ဂလိတ်ပြည်, England, the country of the English; မြမ္မာ, a Burmese, မြမ္မာစကား, the Burmese language; ရန်ကုန်, Rangoon, the town of Rangoon, ရန်ကုန်မြို့, ditto ရန်ကုန်သား, or ရန်ကုန်မြို့သား, a son, or native of Rangoon.
2nd. Common nouns used to qualify a following noun, as ရွှေ,gold, ရွှေဖလား, a golden cup; မြောက်, the north, မြောက်လမ်း, the northern path; အညာ, the upper part (of a country), အညာသား, an up-conntry person.
3rd. Names of trees, plants, and their parts, which are only used in combination with a following noun; thus from သံလွင်, the olive, are formed သံလွင်ပင်, an olive tree, သံလွင်ပွင့်, an olive blossom, သံလွင်သီး, an olive (fruit), သံလွင်ရွက်, an olive leaf.
VERBS.
§105. Verbs are of two kinds, transitive, which express actions that pass from the agent to the object, as ရိုက်သည်, to strike, ချစ်သည်, to love; and intransitive, which express being, or some state of being, or an action which is confined to the agent, as
