156 Grammar of tire 



Bosenlatela, or, chiasentale andu. Plural, Bosenieaaas, Sfc. 

 Imperfect, Qosente/tk, chiah, dual. Bosentate, andak, or, 

 c/iia sentate andah. In the second conjugation the irregular 

 verbs, are : — 



1st — Verbs beginning with a double vowel, of which the 

 second is not / ; for they change their inital a into i for the 

 first and second persons singular, in the other persons they 

 follow ^a^efi, ^aon, for example, to arrive, has, Jo7ik, chionk, 

 haonk, ^aonk — I am arriving, &c. 



2nd. — Verbs beginning with and, or ann both short, as an- 

 da^aron, ^amionten, which have in the first person singular, 

 ndutai2e, innontenk^ without the personal mark g, and in 

 the second person singular statane, isfonfenk, in the other 

 persons they follow a^eti, except in the first personal 

 singular of the perfect and pluperfect where they have 

 andaSaron, ajmonten. 



3d. — Those beginning in ar, which for the first person 

 singular change the initial ,a of the infinitive into ^7-, and 

 for the second person only into cJir, or ch, as, /imven — to 

 pick ; ranas — I pick ; chi-avas or chaoas — thou pickest ; 

 harams — he picks, in the perfect and pluperfect tenses 

 they have aj in the first person singular, as, o^raven, 

 a,ravannen, in which the diminutive g is not sensible. 



4th. — Verbs of the paradignia s, beginning either with 

 the double vowel r/, as, ,aut(mdo/tron — to sustain a loss; 

 or, a/tnd, as, /oide'ravaro — to admire, or a^ann, as, 

 unnonh«aHdi — to be sick, or, n^ar, as, ,arandi — something 

 to happen to any one, differ from ,a^efi\ or in the first 

 person singular where they have ajatando^ares, ande- 

 ravach, annonhvach, aras, iii the other persons arc declined 

 as other verbs of the paradignia s. 



