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In meaning- this form agrees with the intransitive nominalized verb. 



It may be translated the one whom i — , etc. 



ELo'n nenapela'igu/n he is the one whom I leave 



git nenapelai' gum you are the one whom I leave 



qa'at ninei'miiiuni the reindeer are the ones whom I take 



nena'nme-git they are the ones whom you kill 23.4 



Accordingly, when the object of the verb is in the plural, the nominal 



third person appears also in the plural. 



The third person plural subject occurs also without ine- and has 



active sense. 



qa'at ni pel a' (/mat the reindeer are the ones whom the}' leave (or, 



perhaps, the reindeer are in the condition of being left). 



ga'at ninei' natqinet the reindeer are the ones whom he takes 



ni'nmuqen ora'weLa7i Eiwhut'Ul the St. Lawrence people were the 



ones who killed the men 12.11 



pipE'lcilhin nena'nmuqen a mouse was killed by him 89.24 



ni'uqinet qu'tti several were the ones who said to them 59. 2 



nini'uqinet they were told by him 73. 13 



ti'ulc neime'nqdet they were those who were approaching (to) the 



entrance (intransitive) 103.1 



7iineinieu' qin wa'lqar he was one who approached the house 



57.6 



tayo'lhit jienqime' qhiat he was one who hung up the needlecases 



82.10 



The nominalized transitive verb in ge- has tw^o forms— one the 



passive, meaning i, the one who has been — , etc.; the other active, 



derived from those forms of the transitive verb which are replaced by 



intransitive forms (see p. 741), except -tlci. 



The third person, with or without-p«-may be used in an active or 



passive sense. 



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