THE VERF.. 



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He comes. 

 Yon come, 

 I come, 



aggerpok. 



aggerputit. 



aggerpunga. 



They come, aggerpuL 



Ye come, agg< 



We come, aggerpugut. 



The conjugations, through all moods and tenses, are effected by 

 the use of the personal pronouns ; and there are transitions, when 

 the action passes from one person to another, as in several American 

 languages : as — 



He washes himself, ermikpok. 



You wash yourself, ermikputit. 



I wash myself, ermikpunga. 



They wash themselves, ermikpnt. 



They two wash themselves, ermihpuk. 



Ye wash yourselves, ermilepuse. 



We wash ourselves, ermikpugut. 



We two wash ourselves, ermikpuguk. 



Every mood and tense is thus inflected with the suffixes of the 

 persons, ringing the changes in each transition ; as, he washes 

 himself, he washes you, he washes me, he washes them, he washes 

 us ; and so with all the other persons. For example, to conjugate 

 through all the persons washing a third person we have — 



He washes him, ermikpa. 

 You wash him, ermikpet. 

 I wash him, ermikpara. 



They wash him, ermikpa i. 

 Ye wash him, ermikparse. 

 We wash him, ermikparput. 



The fox sees it, terianiak takuvd. 

 The fox saw him, terianiap takuvd. 



The participle, which supplies the place of an adjective, is the 

 same as the preterite, Ermihsolc, washed. The future is Ermissirsoh, 

 he will wash. 



The principal auxiliary verb is pyolc ; with which, or with 

 various particles, an infinity of words are formed into one, the last 

 only being conjugated. Crantz gives an instance of this, where a 

 single word expresses what in English requires seventeen : — " He 

 says that you also will go away quickly in like manner and buy a 

 pretty knife." In Eskimo this is — SavigiJcsiniariartoJcasuaromurij 

 otittogog — composed as follows : — 



Omar, wilt. 



Y, in like inaiim i 



Otit, tin .11. 



Tog, also. 



<><i, lie 



