Huron Language. 149 



would to God that I had never sinned. 



Of the Subjunetive Mood. 



The tenses of the subjunctive are not diflerent from the 

 tenses of the indicative, except in the prefixed marks 8e, or 

 </<9c, signifying if j as, ac^ei^e vannenhaen — I wouhl pound 

 if I had any wheat. 



When dc is placed alone, it signifies when, and then it 

 governs the future, as, if I had, if I did ; nor is it ever 

 rendered among the Hurons by the imperfect; but it is for 

 the must part rendered cither by the present or the aorist, 

 or by tlie personal mood, as, we may sin ; we may commit 

 fornication if we sleep with women — amari/ivanderai Qea- 

 vendak vaudt^a, or, taavemlak vundeten. 



The following negative propositions, if I did not pound 

 now you would scold me, and, you would scold me, if I do 

 not pound now, you would scold me some time from this, 

 are sj)okcn, the first thus, as, laikven dihoton ontc/^tQae, 

 and the second thus, o7ita, i^Ltandewi, askak^^en dihatcn. 



The perfect is mixed with the preterite, as is tlie perfect 

 indicative, by having the initial e affixed, and also the final 

 /,. When the particle negative te meets with the particle 

 ^e, signifying if, then the first is changed into to, or onta, 

 as, would you protect me if 1 should not wear your clothesj 

 as, kinlounnustttditkhh-nta^i'y ukitas, or, ontu^cukctos dcsa- 

 ton dcluedu, ^cthiakilns, ^c. 



Of the Inlinitive mood. 



The infinitive has only the present. The participle of 

 the future passive is rendered by the personal mood of tlie 

 impersonal, v. ^'. indaie jl,aionkcUat — a thing to be car- 

 ried, or rather a thing which ought to be carried. — 

 Observe that the infinitive mood of the llurons is used in 

 the bume manner as with the Frcneh. 



