Singular.        Dual.                Plural.
Nom.    Cara            Cara-egu            pu-Cara
Gen.   Cara-ni         Cara-egu-ni         pu-Cara-ni
Dat.    Cara-meu        Cara-egu-meu        pu-Cara-meu
Accus.  Cara            Cara-egu            pu-Cara
Voc.   a Cara          a Cara-egu          a pu-Cara
Abl.    Caramo          Cara-egu-mo         pu-Cara-mo

Instead of pu, the mark of the plural, ica or egen may be affixed to the noun, or que placed between the adjective and substantive.  Thus the plural of cara may be pu-cara, caraica, or caraegen, signifying the cities; or cum-que cara, the good cities.

The Chilese language abounds with adjectives, both primative and derivative.  The latter are formed from every part of speech by invariable rules:  As, from tue the earth, comes tuetu terrestrial; from quimen to know, quimchi wise; and these, by the interposition of no, become negative, as tuenotu not terrestrial, quimnochi ignorant.  The adjectives, participles, and derivative pronouns are unsusceptible of number or gender, in which they resemble the English; yet when it is necessary to distinguish the sexes, alca is used for the masculine, and domo for the feminine.  The comparative is formed by prefixing jod or doi to the positive, and the superlative by cad or mu.  Thus from chu limpid, are formed doichu more limpid, and muliu most limpid.  There are no diminutives or augmentatives, which are supplied by means of the adjectives picki little, and buta great.  Diminutives are also formed by changing a harsh sound into one more liquid; as votun son, to vochiun little son.  The primitive pronouns are inche I, eimi you, teye which, &c.  The relatives are iney who, chem what, ta or ga that, &c.  The verbs all terminate in the syllables an, en, in, an, un, un; and are all regulated by a single conjugation, having all the voices, moods, and tenses of the Latin, with three or four others, and the singular dual and plural like the Greek.  The terminations of the present tense of each mood form the roots of all the other tenses of the same mood, which are distinguished by certain particles, as che in the second present, bu in the imperfect, uje in the perfect, &c. as in the following example, which are placed between the radical and the final n.  Passive verbs are formed by the auxiliary gen, between the radical and final n.  Impersonal verbs by the particle am added to the radical.  The following example of the verb elun to give, will serve as a model for all the other verbs in the language without exception, as there is but one conjugation and no irregular verbs.  It is to be noticed, that the first present of all the verbs is used, as our compound preterite:  Thus elun signifies I give or I have given; while the second present is strictly confined to the present time.