Several kangaroos Boorooyargang

It will be observed that the dual and plural suffixes vary slightly in
form, according to the termination of the noun.

_Gender._--Mur'ri[n~], a man; bul'lan, a woman; boobal, a boy;
mullunga, a girl; goodha, a child of either sex; warrambal, a young
man. Another name for a man is boual; a married man is kunbeelang; a
married woman is boualillang. Generally the males of animals are
distinguished by the addition of goomban, and the females by dhoorook.
The males of certain animals have a name which distinguishes them
without stating the sex; thus, the male of wallee, the opossum, is
known as jerrawul, while the female is wallee dhoorook. Goola, the
native bear, has burrandang for the male and goola dhoorook for the
female. A few animals have a distinctive word for the female as well
as for the male; thus, the female of the wallaroo is b[a^]wa, and the
male goondarw[a^]. Others again have the suffix koual for the male,
and [n~]oual for the female. The words for "male" and "female" are
inflected for number like other adjectives.

_Case._--There are two forms of the nominative, the first naming the
subject at rest; as Boual ngabooroma[n~], the man sleeps. The second
shows that the subject is doing some act; thus, mirreegangga wallee
burr[a^]ra[n~], the dog an opossum bit. Mirreegang is a dog in the
first nominative.

The possessive case takes a suffix both to the possessor and that
which is possessed:

Murringoo warrangangoong, a man's boomerang.

Mirreegangoo goodh[a^]woong, a dog's puppy.

Bullangoo goodh[a^]yarroong, a woman's children.

Booroongoo dhoombirgoong, a kangaroo's tail.

Any object over which one can exercise ownership can be conjugated by
possessive suffixes for number and person:

_Singular._ First person My boomerang Warrangandya
Second Person Thy boomerang Warranganyee
Third Person His boomerang Warrangangoong

_Dual._ First Person Our boomerang, incl. Warrangangulla
Our boomerang, excl. Warrangangullang
Second Person Your boomerang Warranganboola
Third Person Their boomerang Warranganboolangoo

_Plural._ First Person Our boomerang, incl. Warranganyinnang
Our boomerang, excl. Warranganyillung
Second Person Your boomerang Warranganyoorung