BOOK THIRD
NOUNS
It may be worth while to remark that house-hold servants at Madras talk a broken English with fluency; but the learner will find it profitable to employ only those domesticks who will speak to him in the language he is studying: such are always to be had. Our initiatory native instructors also speak English, but we should as soon as possible lay aside such aid and employ a teacher who speaks Telugu alone.
ON PRONOUNS.
The pronouns may be divided into two kinds, viz. the personal and the adjective pronouns. There are no Relative pronouns.
Personal pronouns have two numbers like those of substantive nouns, and three persons in each number, as ~i$i&> I, fcsS thou, ■sr-sfe he. Plu. we, you, •sr'Oo they.
The Gender of the 1st and 2d person is always clear. But the 3d person calls for distinction. Thus Mas. he, Fem. and
Neut. wa.sAe, it, and Plu. Mas. and Fem. Tst»0o those persons. Neut.
a those things.
The pronouns have all the cases of nouns except the Vocative, which, however, is used in compound words, as Aj-5t»tw° O Gardener! r» "V" O milk maid he.
On The First Person. The first person (I, myself) has two modes of forming the plural, viz. we and s&iS^o thou and I, or you and roe, or thou and
we; for this includes the person addressed.
Singular. Plural.
N. I N. "&>sfaa we
G. ~F°, T^csm jy^dj my G. term, sSj^oJnSf^ s£r°i£> our
D. "i^so to me D. *&»5o to us
A. fSpS^L, jSjSo me A. sfosto fS.JfcsSn, s&sfoMy
or s&sfo,e)ff> us.
- In poetry Wm is sometimes changed into £>j& enu or £> E'; and "t5os5i» is changed into 'Less • and jt)>g) into
