In these forms the noun is singular throughout. To render it plural, as well as the pronoun, the appropriate general plurals _ug_ and _un_ or _ig_ and _in_, must be superadded. But it must be borne in mind, in making these additions, "that the plural inflection to inanimate nouns (which have no objective case,) forms the objective case to animates, which have no number in the third person," [p. 30.] The particle _un_, therefore, which is the appropriate plural for the inanimate nouns in these examples, is only the objective mark of the animate. The plural of I, is _naun_, the plural of thou and he, _wau_. But as these inflections would not coalesce smoothly with the possessive inflections, the connective vowels i. and e. are prefixed, making the plural of I, _inaun_, and of thou, &c., _ewau_. If we strike from these declensions the root IE, leaving its animate and inanimate forms AU, and EE, and adding the plural of the noun, we shall then,--taking the _animate_ declension as an instance, have the following formula of the pronominal declensions. _______________________________________________________________________ | | | | Obj. | | Plu. | | | | | Place| | inflec. | | inflec.| Obj. |Plural | |Pron.|of the|Possessive | to the |Connect.| of the |inflec.|of the | |Sing.| Noun.|inflection.|noun sing.| vowel. |pronoun.|n. plu.|Noun. | |_____|______|___________|__________|________|________|_______|_______| | Ne | ---- | aum | ---- | --i-- | --naun | ---- | --ig. | | Ke | ---- | aum | ---- | --e-- | --wau | ---- | --g. | | O | ---- | aum | un | | | | | | O | ---- | aum | ---- | --e-- | --wau | --n | | |_____|______|___________|__________|________|________|_______|_______| To render this formula of general use, six variations, (five in addition to the above) of the possessive inflection, are required, corresponding to the six classes of substantives, whereby aum would be changed to am, eem, im, oem, and oom, conformably to the examples heretofore given in treating of the substantive. The objective inflection, would also be sometimes changed to _een_ and sometimes to _oan_.