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As in Chukchee there occur also a number of impersonal forms. 



KAMCHADAL (§§ 69-71) 

 5 69. Types of Transitive Verb 



The Kamchadal transitive verb shows peculiarities of structure 

 similar to those of the Chukchee and Koryak. Only the forms with 

 the objects thee, you, us, are formed with the pronominal forms 

 corresponding to the intransitive suffixes. The combination ye — 

 us is here also excepted, although no indication of a change of the 

 verb into an intransitive form by means of a special suffix is found. 

 Instead of that, the forms thou, ye — me have the ending -minlc, 

 which does not occur in the intransitive verb, but seems to corres- 

 pond to -miJcwE of Chukchee- Koryak. It may be mentioned here 

 again that in Koryak this ending tends to be dropped. In the 

 Kamchadal forms here discussed it may express the intransitive 

 first person plural, as though we had, for instance, instead of 

 thou leayest me, we part. When used for the singular thou — 

 me, the ending is often pronounced -min, which may be an older 

 form. The form ye — me, us takes, in addition to -minTc, the end- 

 ing -ex YE, which corresponds to the intransitive subject. In 

 agreement with the nominal forms, the third person plural object 

 has -^n. The nominal-predicative form is used here for both singu- 

 lar and plural of the third person with the object me. 



The forms of a second type of conjugation are not quite so clear. 



