60 SYNTAX. 



c. And sometimes it is contained in the following verb ; as, en man, he is coming 

 to me, ekta nipi, they went to you. 



§ 186. Of the two prepositions 'kidi ' and ' om,' both meaning with, the former 

 governs singular and the latter plural nouns ; as, he kidi mde kta, I will go with him; 

 hena om mde kta, / will go with them. 



§ 187. 1, The names of the natural divisions of time, when they refer to the 

 past, terminate in ' haq,' and when to the future, in 'tu;' as, wehaq, last spring; 

 wetu, next spring. 



The termination ' tu ' or ' etu,' in waniyetu, mdoketu, ptaijyetu, wetu, haijyetu, aijpetu, litayetu, etc., 

 may have been originally a preposition, signifying, as it still does in other cases, at ot in ; and the ter- 

 mination ' hai),' in wanihaq, wehaQ, mdokehai), ptiqhai), etc., is probably the adverbial ending. 



2. The preposition ' i ' prefixed to the natural divisions of time signifies the next 

 after ; as, iwetu, the spring following ; imdoketu, the next summer ; ihaqliaqna, the 

 next morning. 



CHAPTER VII. 



CONJUNCTIONS. 



§ 188. 1. Conjunctions commonly stand between the words or sentences which 

 they connect ; as, mahpiya ka maka, heaven and earth ; wai)6iyaka tuka iye6i6iye 

 sni, / saw thee hut I did not recognise thee ; e6oij yasi esta ecoq kte sni, {do thou- 

 told although, do will not) although thou told him to do it, he will not. 



2. But the conjunctions ' ko ' or ' koya ' and ' ahna ' are placed after the words 

 they connect ; as, 6ar)ka waqhi ko mduha, (f re-steel flint also I have) I-have flint 

 and steel ; malipiya maka ahna kaga, he made heaven and earth. 



§ 189. 'Uqkai} ' and 'ka' both signify and, but they are used somewhat differ- 

 ently, ' ka ' denoting a closer connexion than ' uqkaq.' 



1. When two or more verbs having the same nominative are connected by a 

 copulative conjunction, 'ka' is commonly used; as, ekta wai ka waqmdaka, I went 

 and saw. But if a new nominative is introduced, ' uqkaq ' will be required j as, 

 ekta wai uqkaq waqmayakapi, I went there and they saw me. 



2. When after a period the sentence begins with a conjunction, ' ka ' is not used 

 unless the sentence is closely connected with the preceding one. 



3. ' Uqkar) ' never connects single nouns or adjectives, 'ka' and ' ko ' being 

 used for that purpose ; as, waste Ika ksapa, good and wise ; 6aq mini ko, wood and 

 water. 



For the use of the conjunctions kiqhai], uqkaijs, and tuki, see § 133. 



§ 190. The words ' edit) ' and ' nakaes,' although more properly adverbs, often 

 supply the place of conjunctions ; as, he waku, e6ir) makida, / gave that to him, 

 because he asked me for it ; he tewahiqda, nakae^ hededaq mduha, / refused that, 

 because it was the only one I had. 



§ 191. The idea conveyed by the conjunction than, cannot be expressed in 

 Dakota directly. Such a phrase as, " It is better for me to die than to live," may 



