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express ideas that are not real actions, but which may be used as such 

 in connection with some object. Thus, I may know him, understand 



THEM, DESIRE IT, BELIEVE HER, WATCH MYSELF, Ctc. On the othei' 



hand, verbs like to go, to run away, etc, express intransitive 

 actions that may be performed in connection with a given object. 

 Thus it is possible to go to him, to run away from me, etc. 



Coos treats the stems expressing such ideas as intransitive verbs, 

 which do not take any of the transitive suffixes; but since these 

 intransitive verbs may, without the aid of any additional grammatical 

 device, become transitive, and imply the existence of an object (which 

 is usually that of the third person) , there is a special suffix -dya which 

 indicates the (mental) process described above. This suffix, always 

 added to the bare verbal stem, denotes an intransitive action that has 

 become transitive by being used in connection with the third person 

 object. It may therefore be called the "pronominal suffix," ex- 

 pressing, besides the subject, the third person object of an intransi- 

 tive verb. 



ux alqsa'ya they two are afraid 



of it 7.5 

 T^dowafya I want her 70.6 



TiEqafya he ran away from it 



42.4 

 'Q,x'naHd'ya I am riding (a 



horse) 

 Lqd'ya Iex swdl believed it the 



grizzly bear 94.25 

 mitsisl'ya she knows it 60. 1 

 In kwad'niya (they) did not 



know it 86.12 

 latsd'ya he went after it 94. 7 

 ImHd'ya he watched it 94.6 

 il Ld^kwd'ya h.E L.'td they 



occupy the country 44.21 



a'lqas fear 66.4 



tm,x't7! do'wa lou'txe tl'ye 

 pu'yatc here wants to come 

 back thy uncle 122.15 



nEq he ran away 100.16 



x'ne'et he is on top 10.1 



Lq- to believe 



mi'tsis wise 132.6 

 kwadn- to know 



la he went 22.18 



Id^H- to watch 



e^LO^k^ you sit down! 38.22 



The plurality of the object is expressed by the affixed numerical 

 particle liEma all (§ 109), or by the separate suffix -Uex (§ 54). 



filo'^Hd'ya hE'ma I watch them all 



The imperative of this form has the suffix -It (see § 43) . 

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