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HANDBOOK OF INDIAN LANGUAGES — TAKELMA 

 FUTURE 



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FUTURE IMPERATIVE 



Singular: 

 2d per. 



dumxgaHn 



do^rm.'^'k' 



1 These forms were not actually obtained, but can hardly be considered as doubtful, 

 s Probably expressed by simple future domximida^. 



It is not necessary to give the transitive potential and inferential 

 forms, as the former can be easily constructed by substituting in the 

 future forms the aorist endings for those of the future : 



dUmxi he would kill me 

 do'^ma'^n I should, could kill him 

 do'^ra he would^ could kill him 



The inferential forms can be built up from the corresponding future 

 forms by substituting for the subject endings of the latter those given 

 in the table for the inferential mode : 



dumxiV he killed me 

 domxamklelf you killed us 

 domVa^ I killed him 

 domxanp' gana^V we killed you 



The only point to which attention need be called in the aorist and 

 future forms is the use of a connecting vowel -i- instead of -a- when 

 the first personal plural object (-am-) is combined with a second 

 singular or plural subject {-if, -it'p\ -ida% -iVha^) ; this -i- naturally 



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