406 GRAMMAR OF THE KLAMATH LANGUAGE. 



The verb can even preserve its usual ending in -a, when the pronoun stands 

 before it. Examples: 



sh^pa to say: 



shi'ip'i ! shapi ! shapa ik ! say thou ! say ! 

 shap'at ! sh/ipat ! say ye ! 



shnuka to holdfast: 



i shnuki ! i-i .slini'iki ! shnuki ! i shnuka ! shnuka i ! hold thou fast ! 

 at shnukat ! shnukat ! at shnuka ! hold ye tight ! 



shufna to sing : 



shuin i ! shuini ! i shuin ! sing ! 

 shuin' at ! shuinat ! at shuin ! sing ye ! 



Sometimes, by addressing one representative person, as a chief, a whole 

 multitude is addressed sinuiltaneously ; then i, ik, ike, Iki thou may be used 

 instead of at, a ?/e ; i shuin ! sing ye ! Cf. 90, 12-14. 



h. The exhortative form in -tki, tgi is identical in form with the verbal 

 intentional to be considered below ; it puts the command in a mild, affable 

 form, and sometimes stands for the imperative proper, and so does the future 

 in -uj'ipka. The exhortative often nasalizes the final -t, and throws o^ the 

 -ki, -gi for the sake of brevity, as huhatchantki tliey should run on, 54, 8, 

 or huhatchant. Cf 40, 4. In this mode -tki is contracted from -tko gi and 

 a finite verb of command, desire etc. is omitted : shanii-uli nu luihatchantko 

 gi I want (them) to he running on. The exliortative goes through all three 

 persons of the singular and plural, and in tlie first and third persons n)ay 

 be rendered by hudshuntki nu let me run, hudshantki link let him, her run. 

 The future in -uapka has no exhortative form, because that function is 

 embodied in its declarative mode. 



The three modes just discussed are also reproduced in what I call the 

 periphrastic conjugation with the auxiliary gi to he. 



A potential mode is formed by adding the particle ak, ak a, ka to the 

 finite verb — a process which properly belongs to the Syntax. 



