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Preterit tense : 

 / iras, have been Jnoir/ri/ tiii'nm nush livink ; tiii'mansli hun./ 

 tve were, have been hunt/ry tetiii'ma, tiii'ma na'lsli hiink. 



Future tense : 

 / shall be hmnjrij tiamuaj)ka nush. 

 I shall be hungry tiii'ma tak nush (Mod.). 

 we shall be hungry tetiiiniuapkn, tiiiniuapka nalash. 

 we shall be hungry tetiii'ma tak, tiii'ma tak n:ilash (Mod.). 



Conditional mode. 



I may he hungry tiii'mat nu'sh. 



ive may be hungry tetiii'mat, tiii'mat nalash. 



Imperative and exhortative mode (wanting). 

 Participles and Verbals (used in tlie sense of an active verb), 

 tia'mantko, tetiii'mantko hungry or hungering, 90, 12. 

 tia'mash, tetiii'mash the condition of being hungry. 

 tia'masht, tetiii'masht having been hungry etc. 

 tia'muk, teiVii'muk for being hungry, O.'i, 13. 



A few verbs in -a, Hke ma'slia to be sick, are using forms derived from 

 verbs in -i. Cf. the "I-inflection." 



THE U-INFLECTION. 



The vowel -u, which terminates these verbs, alternates in almost every 

 instance with -o; and there are two classes of these verbs: (1) such as 

 show -u, -o as a constant terminal vowel; (2) verbs in -ua, -wa, which 

 occasionally suppress the final -a, though it re-appears in some forms of con- 

 jugation. The first class shows but a small number of verbs, but there are 

 several verbs which are apt to substitute -u (and -i) for -a whenever the 

 meaning of the verb is required to undei-go alteration: gatpna to arrive; 

 gatpnu to arrive at a distant place. Cf. Suffix -u. 



Verbs following the U-inflection add the usual inflectional suffixes, as 

 -uga, -Ota, -tki, -tko, -ash, -ank, -an, -uisli to the verbal stem, which ends in 

 -u, -o. When the suffix begins with a vowel, this vowel forms synizesis 



