28 DAKOTA GRAMMAR, TEXTS, AND ETHNOGRAPHY. 
B. PRONOUNS INSERTED. 
Ecakiéon, (o do anything to another. 
INDICATIVE MODE. 
Aorist tense. 
Sing. Dual. Plur. 
3. eGAkiéoy, he does to one. ecaki¢onpi, they do to. 
2, eGayeéon, thou doest to. eéayeconpi, ye do to. 
1. eéAweéoy, I do to. eCaunkicon, we two do to.  ecéauykiéonpi, we do to. 
IMPERATIVE MODE, 
Sing. Plur. 
2. edakicoy wo, ye, or we, do thou it to oue. eGakiéon po, pe, or miye, do ye it to one. 
CONJUGATION Il. 
§ 50. Verbs in ‘yu,’ ‘ya,’ and ‘yo,’ which change ‘ y’ into ‘d’ for the 
second person, and into ‘md’ for the first person singular, belong to this 
conjugation. ‘They are generally active in their signification. 
FIRST VARIETY. 
A.—VERBS IN ‘YU.’ 
Yustan, to finish or complete any thing.' 
INDICATIVE MODE, 
Aorist tense. 
Sing. Dual. Pjur. 
3. yustay, he finishes or finished. yustanpi, they finish. 
2, dustay, thou dost finish. dustanpi, ye finish. 
1. mdustan, I finish. tyStay, we two finish. anstanpi, we finish. 
IMPERATIVE MODE, 
Sing. Plur. 
yustiy wo, ete., finish thou. yustan po, etc., finish ye. 
First person plural —Verbs in ‘yu’ generally form the first person plural and 
dual by dropping the +yu, as in the example; but occasionally a speaker retains it 
and prefixes the pronoun, as, ujyustaypi for aystanpi. 

‘In the Titonway dialect, yustay has luStan in the second person singular, and blustay in the first. 
