A Nepálí Grammar And English—Nepálí and Nepálí —English Vocabulary Designed For the Use of Missionaries Tea-Planters and Military Officers

When the form of a word indicates its gender at all the sign of the Masculine. in the Singular is.found to be o and in the Plural y ; while the general sign of the Femnine in both the Singular and Plural is f i * or rm. [...] The only distinctions between the two forms are that (1) when the Singular happens to end in o the Plural is made to end in 66; and (2)the plural invariably in the case of animate beings receives the affix im ham. [...] the affix harm is not usual but the plural number is left to be inferred from the context or construction or if the singular be closed by virânt ( ) s this vini m is sometimes removed for the plural. [...] The emphatic form of the above is obtained in the Positive by prefixing and in the Negative by prefixing raina to the simple positive forms. [...] ] t It ought to be said that there is a suspicion of contemptuouness in the use of the feminine forms of the present tense ; so that the use of the masculine forms of it even when speaking to or of females is quite correct and the safer course.