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olli. — Katandi — to stand ii|), in the dual is inflected as 

 if it were of tiie first conjugation ; in the plural and imper- 

 sonal it is inflected as verbs of the third conjugation by 

 retaining the letter a of the figure of its conjugation, as, 

 tc^et — I stand ; tcchiet — thon standest ; tehat, teat. Dual, 

 teajat, tctiat, tetsat, tc/iiat, tejat. Plural, tecivat^ tehvaty 

 teskvat, tehendat, tcvendat. Imperfect, tt\etak or etaskaa — 

 I was standing, c/</e/fl*A-hfl. Perfect, teva^etandi, tesatandi, 

 tehotandi, tcutandi. Tconiatandi, tctsatandi, tchoiitatandi, 

 Aorist, ahcbaha. Future, tc\ctaha. Negative, te^etache. 

 Imperative, tlsctahu — stand thou. Titsatuha — stand ye. 

 Titeataha — we both. Tiknata/ia — we several. Optative, 

 tate^etaseuy or xasentate^et, tatechietasen, or xasentotechiet. 

 Note. — Also these two verbs, firio — to kill, to strike, 

 relative, aml.aro — to chop, to fell wood, present, rioch — 

 I kill her, chriocli, haioch, for hnrioch. Dual, ajoch, 

 iiocfi, tuioc/i, liiriodc, plural, (i^vaioch. Ktaiochy skvaiochy 

 hatioch. 



Present singular, rauch — I fell wood; chraoth, harochy 

 jiroch. Dual, ajroc/i, tsirock, hiroch^ Jroch. Plural, 

 a^varoc/i, knaroc/i, sk\i/irocA, haliroch, atiroc/i. 



In the third conjugation, ennon — to go or come, sec that 

 verb through its tenses inflected in the third conjugation 

 of simple verbs. 



In the fourth conjugation ^en — to say, present/,/ — I say, 

 khiy i/icn, i^en, it is not in use, but we use the verb, 

 i,utoiik, of the first conjugation. 1 say, ic/iialonky ihuluuky 

 iuatotikj Sfc. as, ^akitas. The imperfect is not in use, but 

 it iii had thus, i/iluit/ionk — I did say, ultiatonhunky ^t. 

 Perfect, ina^en — I have said, isen, ihitrcu, iatM-n. Dual, 

 iotiiie/i, isteUf ihrmiien, iotinen. Plural, icuHeii, i.sknen, 

 ihoniicrty ionncn. Aorist, u'i/ton — 1 have been saying; 



