Ordinals are formed by prefixing batai to the cardinal, as batai-kethòm, "third," batai phili, "fourth." They seem to be little used: in the story of Harata Kunwar it will be seen that clumsy periphrases are employed to designate the second, third, fourth, and fifth brother of the family to which the hero belonged. Distributive numeral adverbs are formed by prefixing pur or phòng to the cardinal: pur-thòm or phòng-thòm, "thrice."
The following are the personal pronouns:--
1st Person: ne, I; ne-tum, ne-li, ne-li-tum, we, excluding the person addressed: i-tum, i-li, we, including the person addressed; 2nd Person: nàng, thou; nàng-tum, nàng-li, nàng-li-tum, ye; 3rd Person: la, he, she, it; la-tum, they; alàng, he, she; alàng-li, alàng-atum, alàng-li-tum, they.
(The pronoun la is really a demonstrative, = this, that: it is probable that the original pronoun of the third person was a.)
These pronouns take the postpositions like nouns. The possessive or genitive prefixes are ne, my, our, excluding the person addressed; e- or i-, our, including the person addressed; nàng-, thy, your; a-, his, her, its, their.
The demonstrative pronouns are--la, labàngso, bàngso, this; pl. labàngso-atum, these: hala, halabàngso, that; pl. hala-tum, halabàngso-atum, those. The syllable ha- connotes distance, as dàksi, ladàk, here; ha-dàk, there; ha ahèm che-voi-lo, "he returned home from a distance."
(There appears once to have been another demonstrative pronoun, pi, pe, pa, still preserved in the compound words pi-ni, "to-day," penàp, "to-morrow," pedàp, "this morning," paningve, "to-night." Instead of pi and pe we also find mi, me, as mi-ni, me-nàp. This survival is important for the purpose of comparison with other Tibeto-Burman languages.)
As in other Tibeto-Burman languages, there is no relative pronoun; its place is taken by descriptive adjectival phrases. Thus "those six brothers who had gone to sell cow's flesh" is--
la chainòng a-òk kejòr-dàm-a-tum kòrte bàng-theròk. Those cow 's flesh to sell going (plural) brothers persons-six;
"The man whom Tenton had tied with an iron chain" is--
Tèntòn ingchin a-ni-pèn ke-kòk arlèng. Tenton iron chain-with tied-up man.
In these constructions, it will be seen, the adjective or qualifying participle precedes the noun.