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plete the sense of the verbal; and when gi or inflectional forms of it are 



omitted, this has to be considered as an irregularity. 



To the examples to be found in Syntax, T add here: 



AVakai lalap shapash a hiin shnekupkashtkak i ? whii do you want to have 



two moons ffohuj to shine up there (simultaneously)? 105, 10; from shneka 



to he lit up, to shine; shnekupka to shine from a distance, ot from above, up there. 



3. The verbal conditional. 



The verbal conditional in -sht is formed from the verbal indefinite by 

 appending the suffix -t, wliich is also the mark of the conditional mode in 

 the Jinitc verb. Its function is to indicate the condition or supposition under 

 which the action or state expressed by the finite verb of the sentence may 

 become a reality. In most instances we have to express it by a clause de- 

 pendent on the principal clause, and its subject has to stand in the objective 

 case, whether it be a noun or a pronoun. Though in its temporal function 

 it is indefinite like the verbal in -sh, -s, it refers more frequently to the past 

 than to any other tense. Unlike the two forms of the indefinite in -ash and 

 in -ish, there seems to be one form only for each verb, either the one in -asht, 

 or that in -isht. The subject of the verbal conditional is always another 

 tlian that of the principal clause; and this verbal, if not always strictly 

 conditional, sometimes expresses possibility, supposition, conjecture. More 

 concerning it will be found in Sjmtax. 



This verbal is formed: 

 patAdsha to strain, stretch out; patadshasht, d. paptadshasht for having 



stretched out; when, after, on account of havim/ strained, stretched out. 

 shapiya to tell somebody ; mish shapiyasht because, after you said or told; 



mish shashapiyasht on account of your sayiny or telling at various 



times or sundry places. 

 tchuka to perish; tchu/asht, d. tchutch6;jasht when, after perishing. 



4. Tlic verbal preterit. 



This verbal is constructed from the simple form of the verb by append- 

 ing -uisli. It is not susceptible of inflection like the verbal indefinite, or 

 like the substantives in -uish, but always refers to acts performed or states 



