with flat things, as a mat, a leaf, a knife, pàk: as tār pàk-phòngō, “five mats”; lō pàk-philī, “four leaves”; nōkē pàk-thòm, “three knives”;
with globular things, as an egg, a gourd, a vessel, pum: as vo-tī pum-nī, “two eggs”; bòng pum-theròksī, “seven gourds”;
with parts of the body, and also with rings, bracelets, and other ornaments, hòng: as kèng ē-hòng, “one leg”; roi hòng-nī, “two bracelets.”
One of anything is not formed with īsī, but, if a person is spoken of, īnut (a Khasi loan-word) is used: if anything else, ē- is prefixed to the generic determinative; “one cow,” chainòng ē-jòn; “one tree,” thèngpī ē-ròng; “one book,” puthī ē-pàk; “one egg,” vo-tī ē-pum. This ē- appears to be borrowed from Assamese, where it is shortened from èk.
Ordinals are formed by prefixing bātai to the cardinal, as bātai-kethòm, “third,” bātai philī, “fourth.” They seem to be little used: in the story of Harata Kunwar it will be seen that clumsy periphrases are employed to designate the second, third, fourth, and fifth brother of the family to which the hero belonged. Distributive numeral adverbs are formed by prefixing pur or phòng to the cardinal: pur-thòm or phòng-thòm, “thrice.”
Pronouns.
The following are the personal pronouns:—
| 1st Person: | nē, I; nē-tum, nē-lī, nē-lī-tum, we, excluding the person addressed:ī-tum, ī-lī, we, including the personaddressed; | |
| 2nd Person: | nàng, thou; nàng-tum, nàng-lī,nàng-lī-tum, ye; | |
| 3rd Person |  | lā, he, she, it; lā-tum, they; |
| ālàng,he, she; ālàng-lī, ālàng-ātum, ālàng-lī-tum, they. | ||
(The pronoun lā is really a demonstrative, = this, that: it is probable that the original pronoun of the third person was ā.)