RELATIVE PRONOUNS. 49
Nan* no- sewa> de^ mo* ^ ) He win hd
kuremasii 7 . lit. Gives 7 doing* } .
, 3 ^.2 1,1- 5 in every way.
help of everything. ' > )
Dare 1 mo z so 3 iimasii*. Everybody 1 ' 2 says*
RELATIVE PRONOUNS.
IF 80. The Japanese Language has neither relative pronouns nor relative words of any kind. Their absence is made good by the use of a construction in which the verb is prefixed to the noun attributively, just as an adjective might be. Thus the Japanese not only say " a good man," " a bad man," etc. ; but they say " a comes man," " a goes man," " the went man," instead of " a man who comes," "a man who goes," "the man who went," as in the following examples :
Kuru hlto. I
Comes person)
Kita hlto.
Came person)
"The person who comes."
(or, " The people who come.")
"The person who came."
(or, " The people who came.")
Kind kita hlto. Th^ person (or persons) who
Yesterday came person] Came yesterday.
A no yama no zetcho
That mountain's summit The larffe p i ne . tree which
?: Jzz. r 6 ^ h tands on the top of that
matsu. mountain over there.
pine. )
Shiuakucha naran It is a thing which it won't
TleS* 9 ***' "oesn't-do do nQt tQ ^ { ^ j t j g
lit] it. ' which must be done.
