For the declensions of adjectives the Slavic has two principal forms, according as they are _definite_ or _indefinite_. The Old or Church Slavonic knows only two degrees of comparison, the positive and comparative; it has no superlative, or rather it has the same form for the comparative and superlative. This is regularly made by the suffix _ii_. mostly united with one of those numerous sibilants, for which the English language has hardly letters or signs, _sh, tsh, sht, shtsh_, etc. In the more modern dialects this deficiency has been supplied; in most of them a superlative form is made by prefixing the particle _naï_; e.g. in Servian, _mudar_, wise, _mudrii_ wiser, _naïmudrii_, the wisest. The Russian, besides this and several other superlative forms, has one that is more perfect, as proceeding from the adjective itself: _doroghii_ dear, _doroshe_ dearer, _doroshaïshii_, dearest. Equally rich is this language in augmentative and diminutive forms not only of the substantive but also of the adjective, a perfection in which even the Italian can hardly be compared to it; of which however all the Slavic dialects possess more or less. Almost all the Russian substantives have two augmentatives and three diminutives; some have even more. We abstain with some difficulty from adducing examples; but we are afraid of going beyond our limits. It deserves to be mentioned as a peculiarity, that the Slavi consider only the first four ordinal numbers as adjectives, and all the following ones as substantives. For this reason, the governed word must stand in the genitive instead of the accusative: _osm sot_ (nom. _sto_), eight hundred. In all negative phrases they employ likewise the genitive instead of the accusative. A double negation occurs in Slavic frequently, without indicating an affirmation; for even if another negation has already taken place, they are accustomed to prefix to the verb the negative particle _ne_ or _nje_. In respect to the verb, it is difficult to give a general idea of its character; for it is in the forms of this part of speech, that there reigns the greatest variety in the numerous dialects of the Slavic language. The same termination which in Old Slavonic and in Russian indicates invariably the first person of the present, _u_ or _gu_, is in Servian that of the third person Plural of the present and imperfect; and the general termination of the Servian and the Polish for the first person of the present, _am, em_ or _im_, is in Old Slavonic and Russian used for the Plural, _em_ and _im_. There is however one fundamental form through all the Slavic dialects for the second person of the present, a termination in _ash, esh_ or _ish_; and this is consequently the person, by which it is to be recognized to what conjugation a verb belongs.