142 Grammar of the 



time. But when one speaks e^e^ui, it is then understood 

 of many times. 



From the imperfect termination in skna, is formed the 

 future of continuance in ska, ha'chiaskaa — he consumed ; 

 eha^chias'ka. That which is in French spoken thus, j'ai 

 pense il ne s'en est gueres fallu, j'ai presque, on, j'ai 

 ete sur le point de faire, de dire, &c., is by the Hurons 

 thus spoken in the present indicative, by adding ska, 

 aJ,heonska — I thought of dying j achikeonoka — you thought 

 of dying ; tihaotafinnioska — I thought 1 was spoiling the 

 whole; ajtaraska — I thought I was falling. And when 

 one replies to any thing distant and past they use the plu- 

 perfect of the personal mood, as, aonJheo7i'nen, or tioske- 

 hensehen d'aotijhiunn'en — I was near dying of it. 



When the negative fiiture is unknown, then the perfect 

 is to be used Avith the negative particle, stante placed before. 

 Moreover the preterite and praeter pluperfect have the 

 same termination as the future. Stmde'koraskvache, or 

 stantehoraskoan — he will not go. 



The negative personal mood is formed from the future 

 negative, stante huraskvahenn — he would not go, thus 

 by adding nn to the future ; stante haraskvahe. There is 

 another tense which is expressed by these words, I go 

 doing, I go speaking, and is the same as the future nega- 

 tive, omitting the negative particle, stante, haraskhahe — 

 he goes walking, he continues to walk ; hahiatomle — 

 he goes writing ; sehiatonde — you have continued to write. 

 When a continued action is joined to motion, it is expressed 

 by hatie or tie added to the final syllable of the infinitive, 

 as; hotrendaentatie — he continues his prayers walking ; 

 imperfect hotrendaentalien ; perfect hotrcndaentation ; plu- 

 perfect hatrendnentationn^en ; future c/iotrendaentatin ; 



