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Future : 



n'i"2:';/°'wabAg® I shall come to-morrow 

 Past: 



ne' py"^ a' nag6\v^ I came yesterday 



Proiiominal Forms (§§ 28-34) 



§ 28. INDEPENDENT MODE 



Aorist 



In the line containing the intransitive verb the forms for animate 

 subject, third person, are given in the first line; those for inanimate 

 subject, in the second line. In the transitive verb no forms with 

 inanimate subject occur. 



The future forms have ni and M as prefixes in place of ne and Jce. 

 The future of the intransitive has the prefix wi. No future forms of 

 the transitive third person subject with third person object have been 

 recorded. 



[Such a form is wlnes'^w^' he shall slay it (his dog) 178.2. Ob- 

 serve wl- as prefix. It may be noted that intransitive futures 

 occur without this prefix ; for instance, ni'^fy"- (quoted § 27) i shall 

 COME. — T. M.] 



The following examples illustrate the use of the intransitive forms : 

 ne''py°' I come, I came (see pyd [§ 16]) 

 mpy^ I shall come 270.21 

 ke'^py"^ you come, you came 

 pydw^ he comes, he came 

 Jiiw^ he says, he said 26.12, 14 

 pyd'migAtw^ it comes, it came {-migAt- of the inanimate is a 



secondary stem of a connective, and is a peculiarity of gender 



[see §20]) 



.§28 

 44877°— Bull. 40, pt 1—10 52 



