Past and future tenses, as well as imperative mood of verbs (active, passive and relative) are not counted: -- mijery adds 1, while nijery, hijery and mijere add 0; -- atao adds 1, while natao, hatao and ataovy add 0. Pronoun-suffixed forms (dative and genitive forms) are not counted: -- -- atao adds 1, while ataoko, ataonao, ataony, etc. add 0. -- -- trano adds 1, while tranoko, tranonao, tranony, etc. add 0. A set of homonym words count for a single word: -- laza (fame), laza (festivity), laza (Ficus), and laza (hatchet) add 1, not 4. Orthographic variations within a dialect are not counted: -- amaray, amaraina and amaraiñy (tomorrow in Antankarana) add 1, not 3. Compound words are generaly counted with the expressions, not with the words: -- zana-bola adds 0 to the count of words, but adds 1 to the count of expressions. Names (historical, geographical) are separately counted in their own categories. Thus the 69 265 Malagasy words and 6 900 Malagasy expressions claimed here represent conservative minima, not artificially inflated numbers.