[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Literature, language and dating](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature) › [A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.beames-1872) › v3.c19.86 # A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India v3.c19.86 A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India v3.c19.86 - **Language:** English ### [v3.c19.86](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.beames-1872.v3.c19.86) While in the other languages the postpositions, when not used as case-signs, are almost invariably joined to the genitive with the masculine oblique case-sign, in Sindhi they may take the ablative or accusative. Thus आडो “in front,” may take the accusative. It is probably like O. आदौ “in the first place,” or with a negative आदौ न “not at all,” “at no time;” thus आदौ सेठि गला नहि literally “to begin with, he did not go there,” that is to say, “he never went there at all,” locative of Skr. आदि “beginning.” - [Previous: v3.c19.85](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.beames-1872.v3.c19.85) - [Next: v3.c19.87](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.beames-1872.v3.c19.87) - [Up: v3.c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.beames-1872.v3.c19) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.beames-1872.v3.c19.86](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.beames-1872.v3.c19.86) · Pramāṇa