452 GRAMMAR OF THE KLAMATH LANGUAGE. 



THE INTRANSITIVE VOICE. 



Its inflection differs from that of the active voice only by the fact that 

 the subject standing in the singular number governs the absolute form of 

 the verb, the subject in the plural the distributive form, which performs the 

 same function here as the plural of our verbs. Of course this applies only 

 to verbs on which the diuil and plural are not formed by a radical syllable 

 differing from that of the singular, as in hiiwa, tushua, tinua. It is sufficient 

 to give the present tense of one intransitive verb as an example : 

 I sit in a circle nii a liupka li'upka nu liupkan 



1 a liupka li'upka i 



pi a liupka liupka pi 



we sit in a circle nad a lilupka lilupka nad lilupkna 



at a lilupka lilupka at lilupkat 



sha a lilupka lilupka sha lilupkash 



THE IMPERSONAL VOICE. 



The impersonal verbs, as seen above, are either verbs with personal 

 object or objectless verbs. It will suffice to show the inflection of the 

 former only, since it is identical with that of the latter with the object 

 omitted. The object, if a personal pronoun, is usually placed after the verb. 

 I have selected the verb tiii'ma nush I feel huiifp-i/, which shows only one 

 irregularity, that of forming its distributive as tetiii'ma instead of tita-Ji'ma. 

 The plural is formed as in the intransitive verbs, and although the distribu- 

 tive form is more expressive tia'ma nalash, malash, shash may be used also. 



Paradigm of tia'ma nush / feel hungry. 



Declarative mode. 

 Present tense : 



I am hungry : tia'ma nush, nish nush a tia'ma tiii'mansh 



tia'ma mish mish a tia'ma tia'mamsh 



tia'ma pish, hunkgsh pish a tia'ma 



we are hungry : tetiii'ma aw(i tia'ma nalash, na'lsh a tetiii'ma, 



na'lsh, na'sh tiii'ma. 



tetiii'ma ina'lash, ma'lsh ma'lsh a tetiii'ma 



tetiii'ma shash shash a tetiii'ma 



