186 Syntax [§ 429 dear; mōđags, angry; raþizō, easier; skula, guilty, liable to; skulđs,owing; swērs,honoured; swikunþs,manifest; unkunþs, unknown; wiþrawaírþs, opposite. The dative together with wisan or waírþan often has the same meaning as haban, as ni was 1m barnē, they had no children ; saúrga mis ist mikila, / have great sorrow; waírþiþ þus fahēbs, thou shall have joy; ei uns waírbái þata arbi, that we may have the inheritance. The dative is often used reflexively, as leihjan sis, to borrow; rōdiđa sis áins, he spake within himself; ni ōgs þus, be (thou) not afraid; ni faúrhteiþ izwis, be (ye) not affrighted; frawaúrhta mis, / have sinned; þankjan sis or mitōn sis, to think to oneself, The dative also discharges the functions of the old ablative, instrumental, and locative, as wōpida lēsus stibnái mikiiái, Jesus cried with a loud voice; slōhun is háubiþ ráusa, they smote his head with a reed. After the comparative where we should use than together with a nominative, as sa afar mis gagganda swinþōza mis ist, he that comeíh after me is mightier than I; niu sáiwala máis ist fōdeinái jah leik wastjōm, is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment; swēgniđa ahmin lēsus, Jesus rejoiced in spirit; naht jah daga, by night and day. For the dative absolute, see § 430. ADJECTIVES. § 429. Adjectives agree with their nouns in number, gender, and case not only when used attributively, but also when the adjective follows the noun, either predicatively or in apposition. To this general rule there are a few exceptions. (i) An adjective accompanying manage!, people, multitude, and hiuhma, crowd, mostly occurs in the masculine plural, as jah was managei beidandans Zakariins, and