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that, 8ic. The verbs terminate in the infinitive, as 

 in the Greek and German, in ii, with this difference, 

 that all the German verbs end in en, and the Greek 

 in ¿//, except in those cases where they are contract- 

 ed ; whereas the Chilian terminate in the syllables 

 an, en, in, on, un and un. They are all, nevertheless, 

 without exception, regulated by a single conjugation, 

 and are of three kinds, active, passive and imper- 

 sonal, with three numbers, the singular, the dual, 

 and the plural. They have all the Latin moods and 

 tenses, with three or four others, which may be de- 

 nominated mixed. 



All the tenses of the indicative produce participles 

 and gerunds both in active and passive verbs. The 

 terminations of the present tense of each mood serve 

 for the other tenses of the same mood, which are 

 distinga islied from one another by certain charac- 

 teristic particles, 2^^ que in the second present tense, 

 bu in the perfect, uye in the perfect, and a in the 

 first future. The compound and mixed tenses are 

 formed by the union of the same particles. These 

 characteristic particles are applicable to all the 

 moods, as well of active as of passive and imper- 

 sonal verbs. 



Verbs passive are formed by placing the auxiliary 

 gen, to be, between the radical and the final;/ of the 

 verb, and is conjugated with the same terminations 

 as the active. The impersonal are formed by an- 

 nexing the particle am to the radical word, or to the 

 denotement of time. This simple method will ap- 

 pear more clearly in the conjugation of the verb elun. 



