A KWAGIUTL GRAMMAR. 



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CONDITIONAL MOOD. 



/ may be seen 

 Sisu. 1. ( ISt-un 



2. Dfikwitl um } LUs 



Negative. 



I may nut he seen. 

 Sing. 1. Kîs lâ^-nu 



2. Kîs r in/'s !- dfikwitl la/.- 



3. " llnA-r 



(2.) 

 I should liave been seen. 

 Sing. 1. Dfikwitl um \\\ls- J din 



f dill 

 l di.s 



Negative. 

 I should not hare been seen. 

 Sing. 1 Kîs f in^sdin \ dfikwitla 

 2. " t IfiA-sdis > 



Notes on the Verb Dnkvnia. 

 (1.) Examples of Conditional Mood Active : — 



I might not have seen her if you had not told me (where she vas umlerstood). 

 Kîs LîA-sdin diii'wriklilfikî, kSsfi kîs nîtla gifd'un, &c. 



Sometimes lâksda is again inserted after the second Je'is. 



(2.) The second of the two forms given of the Present Tense is used in answer to a question ; it is 

 also emphatic, and employed when a statement has been denied. The first form, dnkiritlin, simply 

 states a fact. Tlie negative foi-m is alike for both. There is also another form of the Present, lamun 

 dulncitl or lamun drikwûglitl. If two persons who were hiding should bo discovered, one would say, 

 "I am seen,'' using the former verb; the other would reply, "I am also seen," using the latter. 

 DiikwiVdila refers to :i moi'e recent action than dakwila. 



(3.) Form (4) of the Past Tense, Indicative Passive would be used by a boy, if urged by a 

 companion to do what he is not allowed to do, and means, " By-and-by I will do it, but 1 cannot do it 

 while my father sees me." 



(4.) The word drikuulglitl shows the action to be sudden, ar.d that the subject did not wish (o bo 



seen. 



(5.) Examples of tlio Subjunctive Mood, Passive Voice: — 



La Ifi liyiii kuii dfikwitlî. 

 Let me go lliat I may he seen. 



Kwfis kwilfiklatl giaiuii kun dfikwitl mî Ifii. 

 Du not hide me, Dial I may he seen. 



Kwilfitl îdagia giainin kun kîuî lâi-un dûkwitl Lit 

 Hide me, that I may not tie seen. 



Do not go yet or you irill he seen. 

 Reply— l\.un îsî dfikw'itla = 



Jlow can I avoid being seen, or I have been seen already. 



Kumsin la, lak â klin dfikwitlSk. 



I do not wish to go there lest I should he seen. 



Gil um IfiAs dis kîs dfikwitla, kîs I'lks dis wulfi sa wa. 

 If you had not been seen you would not have been imprisoned. 



