Table of Numerals. the Multiplicatives; kétszeres, hatszoros, &c. Proportionals are formed by affixing -es or -os to * Ketto if standing by itself, and két if followed by a substantive; for instance két ember, two men. On the question: How many? kettő. milliómszor ordinals is sometimes dropped This is not universally done, Note.-The ending -ik of the if another word is joined to it. however, and is almost exclusively used to express age; for instance, másodéves, in the second year; ("two years old" would be kétéves). Cardinals take-with the exception of the plural endingsall suffixes of the substantive, if this is not written out-i.e., they follow the same rules as the adjectives. They form also adverbs, which answer to the question, How many? and the respective verb; for instance, How many ran away ? hárman.* The terminations of the adverb are -an and -en, as négy-en, öten, &c. Egy-egyedül; and kettő=ketten form their adverbs irreguHárom and ezer become contracted; hárman, ezren. larly. The rest are regular. Ordinals follow the same rules as cardinals-that is, they are adjectives and declinable. They form their adverbs by dropping the ending -ik, and taking -szor or -szer instead. Első is irregular, and its adverb is először. The English rendering of the ordinals is as follows: *Not hároman; the o is here dropped for euphonic reasons. Distributives are also adjectives, and therefore declinable, but form no adverbs. They may be put in the plural, however; as, negyedek, quarters (i.e., more than one quarter). The multiplicatives are adverbs, and, therefore, inflexible. By affixing them with -es or -os adjectives are formed which are called Proportionals, and are then declinable. There is also another form of proportionals, constructed by combining the cardinals with rétü :-egyrétü, kétrétü, hatrétü, single, double, sixfold, &c. Both forms have adverbs, made by the affixes -en or -an (those with -rétü always -en), and have a plural; a kétrétüek, the twofold ones. Száz (100), ezer (1,000), and millióm may be used as substantives, and form a plural if the number of thousands be undefined, &c.; as, százak, hundreds; ezrek, thousands; milliómok, millions. Temporal numerals are: évtized, decennium; század, century; ezred or évezred, a thousand years. These are all substantives. The indefinite numerals are: sok, much; sokan, many; kevés, few; annyi, so much; számtalan, innumerable; egynehány, a few, &c. They are all adjectives, and some of them form also the degrees. THE PRONOUN. A pronoun supplies the place of a substantive. There are five kinds of pronouns :— The personal pronouns are used to supply the names of persons. They are: én, I; te, thou; ő, he or she; mi, we; ti, you; ők, they; and are declined as shown p. 34. Note.-As may be seen, there are two forms for the accusative plural; and though both of them may be used in each case, yet there is a shade of difference in their meanings. Bennünket, benneteket, bennöket seem to be more emphatical, and might be rendered in English thus:-all of us, all of you, all of them (i.e., not one excepted). |