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 acó ing usá 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, passive, neuter, reciprocal and reflexive.