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PARTICIPLES. 
Present Tense, Isas, Being. 
Future Tense, Isungkasas, About to be. 
Note.—Before the regular verbs are commenced it is necessary to 
learn the auxiliary verb, as parts of it are used in the conjugation of all 
the other verbs. 
B. The principal tenses of the regular verbs may be thus arranged : 
{ Tlaou kwoyadung, I love. 
' — _— . 
| Tlaou kwoyadagungung, I am loving. 
Present ee Pee =e 
| Tlaou kwoyadagini, I have loved. 
| Tlaou kwoyadaungkasang, Iam about to love. 
{ Tlaou kwoyadaguni, I loved. 
! a SSL" . 
| Tlaou kwovadagigini, 1 was loving. 
Past 4 2 penis CAES sr 
| Tlaou kwoyadagigungwan, I had loved. 
| Tlaou kwoyadaungkagigini. I was about to love. 
( Tlaou kwoyadasang. I shall love. 
| Tlaou kwoyada@ungsang. I shall be loving. 
Future. + Bie 
| Tlaou kwoyadangsang. I shall have loved. 
| Tlaou kwoyadagiungkasang. ‘I shall have been loving. 
The present tense is used to express a state begun in past time and 
now continuing, Some presents have regularly a perfect tense as Tlaou 
katlaqgung, | am come. 
The past is used as the Aorist in Greek, and is used in conversation 
of something recently said or done. 
The future always refers to something immediately to be done or 
about to be done. Sometimes it is used of a future action and represents 
it as continuing to be. 
I have used the following pronouns : 
Tlaou, ue Talung, We. 
Dahou, Thou. Dalung, Ye. 
Laou, He. Ltha, They. 
If only a few persons, places, or articles be referred to, Laou is used 
as the third person plural and the distinction between the third person 
singular and the third person plural is shown by the termination of the 
verb for the third person plural. 
The following pronouns also may be used : — 
Lth, WE Itil, We. 
Dung, Thou. Dalung, Ye. 
1b He. Ltha, They. 
Il is sometimes used for the third person plural, if only a few persons, 
places, or articles be referred to, and the difference between the third 
person singular and the third person plural is shown by the termination 
of the verb for the third person plural. 
