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t(^nses, with three or four others^ which may be 

 tlenoniinated mixed. 



All the tenses of (he indicative produce parti- 

 ciples and gerunds both in active and passive 

 verbs. The terminations of the present tense of 

 each mood serve for the olhcr tenses of the same 

 mood, which are distiiiijuished from one another 

 by certain characteristic particles, as gwe in the 

 second present iense^ hu in the perfect, ut/c in 

 the perfect^ and a in the first future. The com- 

 pound and mixed tenses are formed by the union 

 of the same particles. These characteristic par- 

 ticles are applicable to all the moods, as well of 

 active as of passive and impersonal verbs. 



Verbs passive ai*fe formed by placing the auxi- 

 liary gen, to be, between the radical and the final 

 71 of the verb, and is conjugated with the same 

 terminations as the active. The impers6nal are 

 formed by annexing the parlicle am to the radical 

 word, or to the denotement of time. This simple 

 mctliod will appear more clearly in the conju- 

 gation of the verb elun, to give, which will 

 serve as a model for all the others, without ex- 

 ception. 



VERB ACTIVE. 



I N D I C A T I V E INI O O D. 



Present Tense. 

 Sing. Elun, I give. Dual. Eluyu, we two give. 



Eluimi, tJiou glvest. Eluimu, you two give. 



Elui, he gives. Eluigu, they two ive. 



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