22. Adverbial numerals. 1. Firstly, secondly etc. are formed from the ordinals as every Adverb is from an Adjective, viz. by adding the letter ར་, དང་, གཉིས་ etc. (s. § [41]). 2. Multiplicative adverbs, ‘once’, ‘twice’ etc., are expressed by putting ལན་ ‘times’ before the cardinal: ལན་, ལན་, W: lan-c̀ig, lan-ñi(s), C: län-c̀ig, län-ñī ‘once, twice’ etc.: seldom ཚེར་, ཚར་, ཐེངས་ with the same meaning as ལན་.
23. Fractional numerals are formed by adding ཆ་ ‘part’: thus, བརྒྱའི་ ‘a hundredth part’ etc., but also: བང་ ‘one third of the treasury’. [[34]]
[1] ཕྲག་ is used especially if the number counting the hundreds, [[32]]thousands etc. follows: thus, སྟོང་ ‘of thousands: twenty, 20 000’; ཁྲི་ ‘many ten-thousands’. [↑]
Chapter V.
Pronouns.
24. Personal Pronouns. First person: ང་ ṅa; ངེད་ ṅed, ṅĕʼ; ངོས་ ṅos (Ld.); ཁོ་ kʽo-wo, masc., and ཁོ་ kʽo-mo, fem.; བདག་ dag ‘self’—‘I’; Second person: ཁྱོད་ kʽyod (kʽyöʼ), ཁྱེད་ kʽyed (kʽyĕʼ) ‘thou, you’; Third person: ཁོ་ kʽo, ཁོང་ kʽoṅ—‘he, she, it’.
The plural is formed by adding ཅག་, རྣམས་, ཅག་ or ཚོ་, but very often, if circumstances show the meaning with sufficient certainty, the sign of the plural is altogether omitted. The declension is the same as that of the substantives.
Remarks: ང་ is the most common and can be used by every body; ངེད་ seems to be preferred in elegant speech (s. [Note]); ངོས་ is very common in modern letter-writing, at least in WT; བདག་ ‘self’, when speaking to superior persons occurs very often in books, but has disappeared from common speech, except in the province of Tsaṅ (Ṭas̀ilhunpo) as also the following; ཁོ་, ཁོ་ in easy conversation with persons of equal rank, or to inferiors.