Verbal nouns (also called participial nouns) can be formed by suffixing third person pronouns Çâ, Ǩ, ÇÂ(ª), ÇÂõ´(ª), ÇÂç adu, avan, ava(l), avanga(l), avaru to adjectival participles.
½Ô¢»â
paattadu `that which saw, was seen, the act of seeing'
Âÿ»Âÿ´
vandavanga `the people who came'
poohaadadu `that which did not go, the act of not going'
ɧÁԻ¨ illaadavan `he who is/was not'
Note that when Çâ adu is affixed, the meaning can be either relative or factive. That is, Éç¡ÞÅâ irukkradu can either mean `that which is' or `the act of being.' The verbal noun of the quotative verb ý -n (see § 7.4) is regularly used in factive constructions.
