The declensional inflections are preeminently scanty. In English substantives there is a sign for the possessive case, and for none other. In Absné there is not even this--_ab_=_father_, _ácĕ_=_horse_; _ab ácĕ_=_father's horse_, (verbally, _father horse_). In expressions like these, position does the work of an inflection. Judging from Rosen's example, the use of prepositions is as limited as that of inflections, _sara s-ab ácĕ ist`ap I my-father horse give_, or _giving am_; _abna amus`w izbit_=_wood bear see-did_=_I saw a bear in the wood_; _awinĕ wi as`wkĕ_=(in) _house two doors_; _ácĕ sis`lit_=(on) _horse mount-I-did_. Hence declension begins with the formation of the plural number. This consists in the addition of the syllable _k`wa_. _Acĕ_ = _horse_; _ácĕ-k`wa_ = _horses_. _Atsla_ = _tree_; _atsla-k`wa_ = _trees_. _Awinĕ_ = _house_; _awinĕ-k`wa_ = _houses_. In the pronouns there is as little inflection as in the substantives and adjectives, _i. e._ there are no forms corresponding to _mihi_, _nobis_, &c. 1. When the pronoun signifies possession, it takes an inseparable form, is incorporated with the substantive that agrees with it, and is _s-_ for the first, _w-_ for the second, and _i-_ for the third person singular. Then for the plural it is _h-_ for the first person, _s`-_ for the second, _r-_ for the third: _ab_=father; _S-ab_ = _my father_; _h-ab_ = _our father_. _W-ab_ = _thy father_; _s`-ab_ = _your father_. _T-ab_ = _his (her) father_; _r-ab_ = _their father_. 2. When the pronoun is governed by a verb, it is inseparable also; and similarly incorporated. 3. Hence, the only inseparable form of the personal pronoun is, when it governs the verb. In this case the forms are: _Sa-ra_ = I _Ha-ra_ = we _Wa-ra_ = thou _S`a-ra_ = ye _Ui_ = he _U-bart`_ = they. In _sa-ra_, _wa-ra_, _ha-ra_, _s`a-ra_, the _-ra_ is non-radical. The word _u-bart`_ is a compound. The ordinal=first is _achani_. This seems formed from _aka_=one. The ordinal=second is _agi_. This seems unconnected with the word _wi-_=_two_; just as in English, _second_ has no etymological connection with _two_. The remaining ordinals are formed regularly, by prefixing to the radical part of their respective cardinals, _-a_, and affixing _-nto_. _Cardinals._ _Ordinals._ 3, Chi-_ba_[46] A-chi-_nto_ 4, P`s`i-_ba_ A-p`s`i-_nto_ 5, Chu-_ba_ A-chu-_nto_ 6, F-_ba_ F-_into_ 7, Bis`-_ba_ Bs-_into_ 8, Aa-_ba_ A-a-_nto_ 9, S`-_ba_ S`b-_into_ 10, S`wa-_ba_ Sw-_ento_.