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PRACTICAL MALAY GRAMMAR.

ADJECTIVES.

rajin, diligent, industrious.
jantan,

laki-laki,

male.
tbal, thick.
lain, other, different.

ADVERBS.

longgar, loose.
makin,

mingkin,

more.
luas, extensive, wide.
pdas, hot (of spices).
prempuan, female.

VERBS.

lari, run.

EXERCISE XV.

1 Is this baby a boy or a girl? 2 One mare has run away and is not yet caught. 3 These scissors are sharper. 4 This needle is finer. 5 The cloth which I bought before was thicker than this. 6 This wheel gets looser and looser. 7 This meat is not very hot. 8 Chilli is hotter than black pepper. 9 Which meat is the most tender? 10 He is the most industrious boy in the school. 11 That coal is as much worn out as the other. 12 His house was in a very extensive field.

LESSON XVI.

Derivative Verbs.

96. As stated in section 42, derivative verbs may be formed from any part of speech. They may be either transitive or intransitive.

Intransitive Verbs.

97. One of the uses of the prefix ber is to form intransitive verbs. Thus the intransitive verb berbunyi, to sound, is formed from the noun bunyi, a noise; and berangkat, to start on a journey, from the transitive verb angkat, to lift.

Other uses of the prefix ber will be dealt with subsequently. See section 113.

98. In the words blayer, and blaboh, the “r” is chided before “l”; and in blajar, which is derived from ajar, the “r” has become an “l”; the “r” is also sometimes dropped when the next syllable is a closed syllable ending with “r”, as bkerja from kerja, bserta from serta, etc.

Transitive Verbs.

99. Transitive verbs are formed from all other parts of speech by the addition of one of the two suffixes -kan and -i. Some roots will only take the suffix kan, and others will only take i, but