Bernhard Karlgren

While the Indo-European languages and many other tongues, to a large extent and with great lucidity as a result, make use of such inflexional affixes, Chinese on the whole does without these devices, and thus employs words without modification in the most diverse functions and connexions. The word jen means equally ' man ', ' man's', ' men ', ' men's ', and ' the man ', ' the man's ', ' the men ', ' the men's ' ; …