590 GRAMMAR OF THE KLAMATH LANGUAGE. 



might. The other sentence needed for completing the sense is here sup- 

 pressed, and its contents have to be supplied by the hearer. The particles 

 ak, kam, etc., added to the form in -t, give it the character of a special rela- 

 tion, as that of volition, possibility, etc. 



pi ak shui'nt (for .shuinat) he can sing ; supply "if he wants to sing." 



hu'nk ak taksh un nil shleat I can see him; supply "if I choose." 



nu' kam hi'tksli telullt I wish to look down from there, 192; 4. 



ka-itat sa nelli'nat, hu'shtchok'huya hak sa they would never scalp (ene- 

 mies), they only killed a few (of them), 19, 4. 



gita tchipash ka-i tii'm kedshant not much tchipash-grass will grow here- 

 about, 149, 10. 



wokslat, wokash shutii'shlat, awo'lat, pc'ksat shiulina they may collect, 

 grind, and cook the pond-lily seed, and rub it fine upon the metate; 

 supply "whenever they camp out there", 74, 7-9; cf 15. 



tud kam a nu kit shashapkeat I do not know what story I am going to tell 

 you, Mod. 



kd-i hunk shlii-at hu'nkesh kiJi'mat skokshash / may possibly not see 

 the dead man's spirit in the fish, 129, 7; cf 1. Cf also 120, 17. 



hu'nk ka-i mat pi'sh siukat / did not kill him, as alleged, 64, 5; ka-i nu 

 hu'nk siiigat I have not killed him, G4, 11. 



It has been stated above that conditional sentences, when introduced 

 by particles, like ha, tchii, at, taksh, are just as often expressed by means 

 of the declarative mode of the present and of the future. The "Legal 

 Customs", pages 58-62, afford many instances; cf also 38, 20; 65, 6. 7; 

 113, 17. 



THE IMPERATIVE MODE. 



This mode fulfills the same office in Klamath as in English, though it 

 differs from it by being generally accompanied by a personal pronoun, 

 except in the third persons. In such sentences as vul;^' ish tala! lend me 

 money! the ])ronoun i thou has coalesced with the i- of nish, aphereticallj' 

 ish me, to me. This sentence may be expressed also by: tala ish vulzi ! 



In the chapter on "Modal Inflection", morphological part, the uses of 

 the two forms of the imperative — the imperative i)roper and the exhortative 



