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has met Peter and John — a^jntraha. But wlicn the person 

 which is as the case of the word it is imdcterniinate, it is 

 to be understood only as the mark of the person of whose 

 nominative it holds the place, as, ujmdiajistask^a — is it 

 witli a married person that thou hast sinned, or that thou 

 hast Iain ? oiiriaksatrulia non«c — she has met someone. 



This rule is only for absolute and not relative words. 



Ucmark in that sentence the use of the particle a 

 prefixed to words to signify a (juality. taotajt uMcnd^uki — 

 of wliat nature is a spirit? stan^ote^aahtenti kauaMen — 

 they are not like us. 



After the negative /c, after /, and other particles of this 

 mood the initial a is to be taken away. When the Frencli 

 locution and sinular ones, they say no more, (ils ne disent 

 plus,) mean a repetition of actions, they are expressed by 

 the mark of reduplication with a negative, staiite s/iunluitk. 

 Fre(]uently in words ending in // sti, / final is omitted, as, 

 for duandiannduali, they say kuutdianndast — that which 

 siUTounds the finger, a ring, from un^diea — a finger, and 

 annhastiy or, kunnhnsti — to encircle. 



'!^o. — The first and third conjugations liave many things 

 similar, as have also the second and foiu'th. Observe that 

 verbs of the third conjiigatiun beginning with vitn or <;/</, 

 difTcr from the maiujer of inflexion of ejtiaras in which the 

 third [>lural of the i)aradigma tki and the third singular 

 of the paradigma s, take /do// itt the place of the initial of 

 the infinitive mood : — as /londl/j/iru^ciik — they resolve, 

 from e/idif /jnrtitn--to resolve, and kn/idi/^itr'aai — he has 

 rcBolved, not, ficnnoitdijjimu'u, nor, /lanendi/mracn. — 

 Verbs ending in crin or end of this mood have sometimes 

 hiendiuni'ucnl', in the third person dual of the paradigma 



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