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SIXTH TRANSITION. 



kotsuitcintnm, they see me kaetsui^itf.lis, they see us, &c. 



RECIPROCAL rilKM. 



u, we see one another 

 K, ye sec one another 

 utfitaw&f.u, they see one another 



Verbs, like nouns and adjectives, sometimes have a plural entirely different from their 

 ilur; tlins, fii//rxii>, to laugh, has in the plural, jaeofMOttif tdfilif, to stand, has 



13. The imperative terminates in the singular in i$, in the plural in wi ; as, 

 drink Muni ; M..S//C-/, drink ye. 



1 I. There an- some particles in frequent use, the exact meaning of which it is difficult 

 ID ilc -line: 



T/./u, perhaps from the demonstrative it/.lu, that, seems to be used as a kind of article. 

 It is prefixed to both substantives and adjectives ; as, tf&n tylu luaus tylu f nsn ? where 

 is the tiither of John 1 Tf.la Detest tfdu skutiamiy.o, the man is good. 



/ (or before a word beginning with s. eps) has a possessive signification ; as, 

 / iiii/nnn/, having a wife; eptyl nintfamin, having a knife; eps s/.ailui, having a 

 husband. Joined with the pronominal prefixes of the word it changes them to possessive 

 pronouns ; as, /Hnpi//J (for pO-eptyl) toltrdu, your fathers, paips stitylam, your canoe. 



In or re is a preposition signifying to, at, in. Prefixed to pronouns (and perhaps to 

 nouns) it supplies the place of a dative case; as, kiukskwalokwdeltig ndntrwi, I wish to 

 talk to ihi-e; kwakdemrUaaaiMf ///co/tid, thou wishest to talk to me. 



Ses is an adverb which expresses present and continued existence; as, tiipais, it 

 rains ; sjriststtf.lt u-tiipais, it rained yesterday ; spistsefylt u-ses-tiipais, it rained yes- 

 terday and is still raining. 



].">. A noun, pronoun, or adverb which commences a sentence, frequently has t or to 

 prefixed to it, apparently for emphasis ; as, tMeri ukolintum u st,i?itsutif, Mary caused 

 him to laugh ; tsutt opolistum 1 who killed him ] tkmdd opolistvm, I killed him ; tOtyan 

 tylu kwuk~f.ui^ 1 where art thou going ? 



16. Almost any word may become a verb with very little variation. Thus, from 

 /iaest, good, we have kin^aest, I am good, kwvf.aest, thou art good, ^aest, he is good, 

 &c. ; namkin^aest, I will be good ; kaks^aestig, we wish to be good ; kaesaits/.aesti$, 

 we ought to be good, &c. 



From fou, that, or so, we have ta^ai-if, it is not so. 



From esele/.v, two houses, are formed, kinesele^u, I have two houses; kwuesfle^u, thou 

 hast two houses, &c. 



A termination in alisiq, signifies to desire an object ; as, 



^ to want a wife, from naf.ono?. 

 inikwit/.l/.umdlisig, to want a house, from suia.tf.lfM 

 kinuminujf.wdlisig, to want tobacco, from 



Other parts of speech, also, may be formed from verbs ; as, from iitf , to sleep, we 

 have siitsvm, a blanket, and suniitistun, a bed. 



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