148 Grammar of the 



conjugation, beginning with /tnd, ^ann, and ar, liave no 

 difference between thu second person singular of the future 

 affirmative^ and the second person singular of the impera- 

 tive, except that they lose the mark e, of the future, as 

 sahei'ouha — fear ye, from esakei'ouha — you will fear ; 

 sia Qara — examine ye, from esta^ara — you will examine ; 

 chiehaattderai — sin ye, from echihscmderai — you will sin. — 



The second person dual and plural is formed from the 

 second dual, by taking the mark of the future e, as, tsi^ei 

 — strike ye, from etsiBet; stehiar'aha — remember ye, from 

 estehla'rGha, When one speaks of two, ^ is often prefixed, 

 as tsatont — place yourselve together ; ti stihei — die ye two. 



They use moreover the personal or future conditional in 

 the place of the imperative, and they conjugate through all 

 the numbers and persons, as, d^t^et — that I may strike ; 

 dchit^et — strike then; dha^et. Imperatives are never used 

 in negative propositions, but in their place are used the 

 negative particles, cmion, or emionehien^ or teaasliQo, 

 answering to the negative particle ne, and governing after 

 them the future, as, enuonskeii ec/tiarasktia — please not to 

 go away ; teaasta^o eehiaraskaa — I wish you \yould not go 

 away. 



Of the Optative Mood, 



The tenses of the optative mood do not differ from the 

 tenses of the indicative, except in the prefixing of the par- 

 ticle ie, and taking after them the particles expressing 

 volition ; sew, aseti, sken, or asken, as, te^c^t^ascn — why 

 had 1 not pounded ? I would wish to j)Ound. And thus this 

 proposition is affirmative of itself; but it is negative when 

 one says, I would not wish to potmd, and thus it is to be 

 spoken in the negative proposition, as, ta sen, i'e tkQu, ta 

 sentev anhhundera, ineii — I would that I had not sinned, or? 



