VERBAL INDEFINITE. 597 



tud lish ml p^lpelsli gi gitaki! ivhat is your business here? lit. "what 



your working is here"? 

 ge-ix guikak hii'k lu'gs spuni'sh the slave transferred (spuni'sh) hy me 



(gd-u) ran aivai/, 20, 17. 

 kani gin ge-u kapa k6-i shutdpka shlelxtchanoHsh ge-u? tvho spoiled 



my coat tvhich I left behind? Ut. "the one dropped behind by me"? 

 kddsha kapka koki'sh ge-u the pine tree grew while I climbed it, 101, 16 ; 



kiikuish gd-u would signify after I had climhed it; lit. "the one 



climbed by me before." 

 nat kA-i kakno'lsh sle-ipele ne-uzAlp'lish gintak lakiam ive did not return 



the parfleshes, though the chief ordered us repeatedly (to do so), 21, 6; 



lit. "though we were the repeatedly ordered ones by the chief." 



b. When the verbs of telling, thinking, wishing, conceding, and refusing 

 require in English a sentence to express their object or complement — which 

 is usually introduced by the particle that — this objective sentence, when not 

 containing the idea of a command, purpose, or plan, and having the same 

 subject as the main verb, is expressed by the verbal indefinite. Verbs which 

 are construed in this manner are sliupa, shapiya, hemd;{e, hdrata to say, to 

 tell, and other derivatives of ha' ma ; hdwa, sheiwa, hu'shka, luVshkanka 

 (Mod. kopa), to suppose, reflect, think; hameni, shanieni, shanaholi to tvish, 

 desire, ivant; shayuakta to know, tumena to hear, lieshegsha to complain, viila 

 to inquire. Cf. Verbal conditional, No. c. 



kani' shapiya, ma'lash na'lam shuenkuApkash *? who says that toe intend 

 tokilltjou? 40, 18. Cf. 35, 10. 



kcl-i nfi un kanash shapitak tua mi shapiyash / shall divulge to nobody 

 ivhat you tell me; lit. "what was told by you", 40, 11. 



git4 nu g;itpa kiiila sh(ishatuish hameniiiga wanting to sell lands, I came 

 to this place. 



tdtank itak shewanash luim'nian ish, shpunkanktak nu wushmush I will 

 sell you the coiv for what you like to give me, Mod. 



ndi-ul6%Apkash maklaks shana-uli nelinash after he fell, the Indians at- 

 tempted to scalp him, 42, 15. Cf 35, 11. 18; 36, 19 j 42, 19. 



