English-Bisaya Grammar Part 9

4.a The relation of majority more, may be also rendered by daghan pa, and than, by sa or dili.

Ex:

I have more silver than Daghan pa ang acong salapi sa bulaoan gold. co, or (dili ang bulaoan co).

I have less shoes than hats. Diutay pa ang mga sapin co, dili ang acong mga calo.

Exercise VI

I have as much money as you--Have you as many friends as I?--We have less money than they--This book is small, that is smaller, and that is the smallest of all--This hat is large, but that is larger--Is your hat as large as mine? It is larger than yours--Do your children write as much as we?--They write more than you--My father has more silver than gold--Your ring is not so nice as my mother's--Your father is less wise than mine--I have less rice than coffee--Do you read as often as I?--Do you listen to what your brother tell you?--Yes, I listen to it--G.o.d is the best Father.

SEVENTH LESSON

UNITIVE PARTICLES.

Before coming to the end of this part of the nouns, we shall have a short speech about some ligaments, called unitive particles, which serve for uniting elegantly the nouns, p.r.o.nouns and adjectives, and for joining together the sentences, and to give them a particular energy. These particles are the followings:

Nga.

l.a This particle (when it is not used as relative) serves to link the p.r.o.nouns with the nouns and the adjectives.

When the preceding word ends by a vowel the letter a of nga, must be suppressed, joining ng to the vowel, as:

Pretty house. Maanindut nga balay.

Good horse. Maayong cabayo.

2.a Serves also for joining both the sentences and verbs with the adverbs, ex:

Come back early. b.u.malic cang masayo.

I doubt very much I may forgive Malisud caha nga pasaylo-an co sia him. (V. Pag 8), 3.a Remark.

Ug.

It is employed instead of the article in the objective cases of indefinite objects, and in compounded sentences when are employed instead of objective case. It serves also to link the cardinal numbers: Ex:

Buy rice. Pumalit ca ug bugas.

The work weakens me Naluya aco ug pagbuhat.

All my neighbour's children Ang mga anac sa acong silingan died of plague. nahurut ug camatay sa salot.

Seventeen. Napolo ug pito.

Ca.

This particle links the cardinal numbers with the nouns: Ex.

Ten thousand. Napolo ca libo.

My three horses were removed out Nauala ang mga totolo ca cabayo of sight. naco.

Ing.

Serves for joining the sentences and the objective cases, when it is spoken in indeterminate sense.

There is not now who may seek. Uala na ing macapatigayon.

Have I a knife? Duna ba aco ing usa ca cuchillo?

Exercise VII.

You speak as much as I--They have not so many toys as books--Have you as many books as I?--I have fewer than you--Has our friend as many birds as chickens?--He has more of the former than of the latter--Are we right in speaking?--You are not wrong in speaking, but you are wrong in cutting my trees--Have you time to work?--1 have time, but not mind to work--Have you still a mind to buy any thing?--Yes, I have a mind to buy one more horse--Have you as much good as bad paper?--I have as much of the one as of the other--Have our neighbours as much honey as sugar?--They have more honey than sugar--Have your sons as many slippers as shirts?--They have more of the latter than of the former--I have a favour to beg of you.

EIGHTH LESSON

THE VERB.

The verb is the most important part of all languages, and also the most difficult. By this reason, to speak with somewhat perfection the Bisaya dialect, it is necessary a perfect acquaintance with it. The Bisaya dialect has not verbs, and they must be formed by adding to the roots particles, which shall be placed either before of after, as we shall explain.

In Bisaya the verbs is divided into substantive, adjective, pa.s.sive, neuter, reciprocal and reflexive.