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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 Excerpt: ...of mono and ngeye. 4. At the end of a sentence containing an adjective in the comparative degree. In this case they are preceded by the conjunction ye, and the article o; as Yandi muingi o la yo mono, he is taller than.!. 5. If the o be absent after a comparative, the pronoun is not personal but possessive, and in nearly all other cases these forms are either possessive or objective personal pronouns; as E nlungu yandi yingi o neni ye yetu, his canoe is larger than ours; O nfumu o voveli wau kwa ngeye, the king says this to you. 6. But yandi and yau, the personal pronouns of the 3rd person singular and plural, are frequently used immediately before or after nouns which occupy the position of the subject of a sentence, and are either in agreement with them as demonstratives, or in apposition (pleonastically), serving only to repeat the idea of the noun. Occasionally both uses of the word occur in one sentence, the demonstrative and the pleonastic, and sometimes o yandi stands for "this person," as--Yandi muntu diduki. That man is a head man. O wantuyau, yaubaakundi etu. Thosepeople,theyareourfriends. O nfumu etu yandi o voveli wo, Our king, he said, let us cease Tubika sambila e minkisi. to worship idols. The Second set of forms are used as subjective pronouns--(1) After the verb or (in the absence of a verb) after the words forming the predicate, as Tu voveli kwetu, we spoke; (2) After the corresponding forms of the first class, as Yetu kwetu tu mindeli, we ourselves are white men. Remarks On The Above Table. With reference to the forms given in this table, the short prefix of the first person is apparently a corruption from a form, ngi, which is still preserved at Banza Mantega and elsewhere, and thus a correspondence may be traced between its fo...