This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859 Excerpt: ...kwa kuhlanu, kwa isitupa, kwa isikombisa, &c., kwa ishumi. kwa ishumi-nashiyagalolunye, it was nineteen times. kwa ikulu, kwa inkulungwane, it was a hundred, a thousand, times. 185. Many other adjectives are converted into adverbs, by prefixing ka. Ex. kakulu, greatly; kaningi, abundantly. kahle, pleasantly, prettily, well; kabi, evilly, ill. kangaka, so greatly (as this); kangako, so greatly (as that). kangapi or kangaki, how many times, how often. kangakanani, how greatly, how mnch. N. B. kangaka or kangakanana is used, (not to ask a question, hut to express admiration, ) for 'how greatly.' Ex. igama lako lidumile kangaka (ox kangakanana) emhlabeni wonke! thy name is how glorious in all the world! 186. Any noun may be used adverbially, by prefixing the preposition nga. Ex. ngokuhlanipa or ngokwokuhlukanipa, (139) prudently. ngokwenama, contentedly; ngamandhla, mightily. ngomusa, graciously; ngokujabula, joyfully; ngeqiniso, truly, a In like manner, nouns, adjectives, and verbs in the participial form, may be used adverbially with the preposition nga, and the indefinite relative prefixed, as follows. Ex. ngokuy'iqiniso, by that which is truth, = truly. ngokutya, newly. ngokunjalo, in such a manner. ngokwesabekayo na ngokumangalisayo, fearfully and wonderfully. 187. Adverbs of time. namhla, or namuhla, or namhlanje, to-day. izolo, yesterday. itangi or kutangi, day before yesterday. itangi kwetangi, day before the day before yesterday. So ngomuso or ngomso, to-morrow, = nga umso. ngomhl'omunye, day after to-morrow, = ngomhla omunye. ngomhV omunye kwangomhVomunye, third day forward. Ex. umsebenzi wanamuhla, work of to-day. izwi laizolo, word of yesterday. ukudhla kwangomuso, food of to-morrow. umvumbi waitangi, heavy-rain of the day before yesterday. 188. ..