ഈ താളിൽ തെറ്റുതിരുത്തൽ വായന നടന്നിരിക്കുന്നു
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PARTICIPIAL NOUNS.
144. Are any personal participial nouns formed from the adnounal participles?
Yes, the most common forms are shewn below:
| Present | Past | Future | |||
| Sing. M. naṭakkunnavan | (=he, she, it, they who or which walks or walk) |
naṭannavan | (=he or she who walked, that which walked, they who walked) |
naṭakkuvavan | (=he who will walk etc.) |
| ,, F. naṭakkunnavaḷ | naṭannavaḷ | naṭakkuvavaḷ | |||
| ,, N. naṭakkunnatu | naṭannatu | naṭakkuvatu | |||
| Plu.M.F. naṭakkunnavar | naṭannavar | naṭakkuvavar (natappór) | |||
| ,, N. naṭakkunnava | naṭannava | naṭakkuvava (naṭappór) | |||
These are also capable of declension throughout the various cases, just as nouns.
145. Has the neuter of the personal participial noun of the three tenses only one form
or several?
The neuter of the personal participial noun may be formed with 'atu', or 'itu'; in poetry
a form with 'utu'* also occurs.
* This 'utu' is an old demonstrative.
