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feet, perfect, and pluperfect, endisen ^enemUo te^ennen, or, 

 endisen ^eaendio te otonn'^en — oh that I was not ma&ter. 

 Optative negative, t'asen nendi ^eaendio ^s^en — I wish I 

 were not master. Subjunctive, present, and imperfect, 

 endi^ersendio t'e^en — if I may or might be master. Perfect 

 and phipcrfect, endinde ^enendio i'e^ennen — if I had been 

 master. Future preterite mixed, de endi^esendio e^enk, or, 

 eoto7ih — whilst I shall have been master. 

 Of impersonal Verbs. 



From verbs of the paradigma 5 are formed impersonal 

 verbs from the third person singular feminine by prefixing 

 ag to it ; as, a^onras/cami — they are gone ; afiteiensti — they 

 have learned ; a^cQar'aio — they have done well; afikerons 

 — it is feared ; a^oatanno?nsandi — a fine rencoimter has been 

 made ; a/iveia chens — they are angry ; a/iaenheon — they 

 are dead ; afiorite — the pot has been seasoned. 



From verbs of the paradigma ch of the first and third 

 conjugation beginning with end or enn, are formed imper- 

 sonals from the third person plural feminine by taking 

 away g, as, onteiensta — they learn ; orask^ach — they go ; 

 onki'ruta — they do well ; ondifin^raenton — they think ; 

 anionches — they go and trade. 



From verbs of the paradigma ch of the second conjugation 

 are formed impersonalsfrom the first person singular formed 

 regularly in which a of the infinitive is changed into e by 

 taking awayg", as, e6e9s(— itis pounded; ehiatonh — they write; 

 emlatare — they \\s\l ; enteri — wc know; enhMtnderach — 

 they fish. Many verbs of the fourth conjugation resemble 

 verbs of the second, by retaining the figure e of the 

 infinitive, as, ietron — some one is there ; dc^entron, chinch 

 they carry, the canoe is passed by land where there is a fall 

 of water ; de^enhiaci, eho**as — they change their abode ; 



