the sentence, e.g.: {| ||||||| |- |he.S||own||sheep||sell.he.Fin |} "he sold his (own) sheep" {| ||||||||| |- |road.||go.self||self.be...when||leopard-NPMk||big||see.he.Fin |} "when he was going along the road, he saw a big leopard" The oblique form is basic, and serves as object, possessive, and adverbial. The subject form has three variants: normal (given above), emphatic - used when the subject is particularly prominent in the sentence, especially sentence-initially - and reduced, used as part of a verb phrase. The "locative" term means "to, at, or for one's own place or house", e.g.: {| ||||||| |- |return.I||to.my.house||I||go.I.Fin |} "I went home" Determiners The main determiners are "that, the" (masc. , fem. , pl. ) and "this" (masc. , fem. , pl. ). As suffixes on a verb or an ablative or locative phrase, they indicate a relative clause. E.g.: {| ||||||||| |- |person..NPMk||these.O||what.||separate||make..Intl? |} "how can I separate these people?" {| ||||| |- |woman||house.||be.that |} "the woman who is in the house" Demonstratives The demonstratives include "here", "there (nearby)", "there (far away)", "down there", "up there". Alone, or with the determiner suffixes or added, these function as demonstrative pronouns "this person", "that person", etc. With the noun phrase marker , they become demonstrative adjectives. E.g.: {| ||||||| |- |here||man||near||reach...when |} "when he came near to the man..." {| ||||| |- |boy.NPMk||down.there.NPMk||.S |} "these boys down there" Numbers The numbers are: 20, 30, etc. are formed by adding "ten" (with tone change) to the unit. In compound numbers, is added to each 'figure, thus: 13 236 When a cardinal number functions as an adjective, the suffix can be added (e.g. "three children"). Ordinal numbers are formed by suffixing to the cardinal, e.g.: "fourth". Adjectives Adjectives are sometimes intensified by changing the tone to top; e.g. "big" → "very big". Verbs Verbs with monosyllabic roots can have three different forms of their active stems: the singular imperative, which is just the root; the past stem, usually identical to the root but sometimes formed by adding -k (with changes to the preceding consonant); and the future stem, usually identical to the root but sometimes formed by changing the tone from mid 3 to high 4 or from bottom 1 to top 5. Some have causative (formed by adding or , and changing mid tone to high) and passive (formed by adding , , or to the causative) forms. Verbal nouns are formed from the stem, sometimes with