4. With verbs when the object is separated from the verb: nia bubu tete adalu he regarded them fixedly, ka lugatai saufini ana let him go secretly, da bae aisile ana they spoke scornfully of him: ala meme gamu to bite and rend you, is a variant.
5. To express, of, from, among: ati mwane agamu what man of you?
6. The forms ending in lu denote a restriction in the number of the people concerned.
7. The adverb afoa apart is also followed by the possessive: afoa ana apart from him.
8. It will be seen that the one possessive in Lau does the work of the three that are used in Sa'a. A Port Adam man asking for a wife at Sa'a and saying geni ana (as has happened at times) would be asked whether he wanted to eat her—the Sa'a use being keni nana, 'ana being reserved of things to eat.
ADJECTIVES.
1. Words which are qualifying terms may also be used in the form of verbs, but some may be used without verbal particles and follow the qualified word. Mwane baita a big man, mwela tou a little child.
2. Some words have a form which is used only of adjectives, either of termination or of prefix.
a. Adjectival terminations are: a, la.
The termination a is suffixed to substantives and verbs: rodo night, rorodoa dark, darkness, cloud; bulu to be black, bubulua black.