The consonants in parentheses are deleted when in word-final position, e.g., วย ุฝิลิ ava pooraa `she goes', but are present if suffixes are added, e.g., วย๋ก� avalukku `to her' or วย ุฝิลิฤิ? ava pooraalaa? `Does she go?' Inanimate nouns are never marked for plural, but always take the neuter singular---there is no way of referring to more than one such noun without numerals or (optional) plural marker, e.g., ว�ป ืภ�เ ฝ๖ำ๖๚ ว๕ืด ุฝิซ฿ anda rentu bassu anke pooccu `Those two buses went there.' Note that the verb `(to) be` ษ็ iru has a different PNG form than other verbs in the neuter present, i.e., the expected form ษ็ก�ลโ is usually replaced by irukku `it is' or by ษ็กดโ irukk-adu. (In the past the expected form ษ็�ปโ irundadu `it was' is unproblematical.)