'5'34 PfeOCEEDiNGS OF SECTION G. 



Imperative. 

 .Singular. 



2 Ba fan Go tliou. 



Plural. 



2 Ko ban Go ye. 



The 3rd person is expressed by the subjunctive. 

 Infinitive. 

 The verb in its simplest form is often put after another in 

 the infinitive, which, however, is usually expressed by the 

 subjunctive ; as, I told him to ^"o — iga fan (that he should go). 

 The infinitive is expressed also by the verbal noun now to be 

 considered. 



The Verbal Noun. 



Nafanoen, or nafanoan(a) (the original form), the going. 



This is composed of the article na, and the formation ending 

 en, or an, and may be formed from every verb in the language. 

 The in nafanoen belongs to the word ban, which pronounced 

 fully is bano, to go. IN afanoen anena, his going. When the 

 verbal noun is used without the article it is the verbal adjective 

 with passive sense, as tea fanoen, what is for going, nabua 

 fanofin, a road to be gone on. 



The simple form of the verb placed after a substantive, or 

 substantive pronoun, without the verbal pronoun, is an 

 adjective, as tea ban, that or those going — the going ones, 

 natomole bano, the men going, or going men. 



The verb " to kill " with a pronominal object : 



As this and all other verbs ai*e conjugated exactly in the 

 same way as the above " ban," to go, it is only necessary here 

 to show how the pronominal object is attached to the verb. 

 Thus, if we take for the verb "to kill," bunu, literally "to 

 make an end of," and which signifies to extinguish, to finish, 

 to kill, &c. : — 



Bunuau Kill me. 



Bunuako Kill thee. 



Bunuea Kill him, her, or it. 



Bunuagami Kill us (exclusive). 



Bunuagita Kill us (inclusive) 



Bunuamu Kill you. 



Bunuera Kill them. 



Bunu natamole ... Kill men. 



