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Huron Language. 147 



expressed by— I could, would, or should liave, the personal 

 mood is used, v.g. I might have kneaded, if you had not 

 stopped me. Aun, t^etin^nen onta te skenda aeshamlhm'en ; 

 but wlicn it cannot be expressed by I could, would, or 

 shoukl have, the plupcrlect of the indicative or subjunctive 

 is made use of, as, if I had kneaded, 1 should have made 

 some bread, — aunda^uruntak 8e m.iBstin'^neii. 



"Jo. — From the imperfect of the indicative is formed 

 another tense of the personal mood by prefixing to it the 

 marks of the j)crPonal mood a, ae, ai, Sfc. v. g. aontahonnhek 

 usnnahunliek — he would be still here; a^cntak — that will 

 be there. 



80. — Two tenses of the pei*sonal mood, Mhich are in use 

 in adirmative propositions, in negatives are never known, 

 but in their place is used the negative j)ersonal mood, v. g. 

 Te^eHriandcnn — 1 should not beat, or, I should not have 

 beaten ; altliuugh one might say a^tiet^et anon^i^ctin'nen — 

 I would beat, or, I might beat. 



Of the Imperative Mood. 



The imperative, properly speaking, is formed from the 

 second person singular of the future alVirmative by taking 

 5 in the place of the characteristic cliiy without prefixing e^ 

 us, 



Imperative, 2d per. sing. fut. aflirm. 



St^et — pound ye, from eehi ifict. 



SontskHu — go ye away, ei/ihntskna. 



If / follows .y, thni / is to be prefixed to s, as fsl/ion — say 

 yp, from echiUmi — you will say. If after *, i short and 



pure U found, it is lost, aM, tsaanha go ye out, from 



ecliianilid ; litun — come in, iro\\\ cvhinii ; tsen — i)lace, put 

 yc, from /rAi>>j — you x\ill put or place. 



ViTb^ of the panalignui »•, also irregulars of the second 



