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(c). After adjectives: ke-unitoks qiiite sloiv ; ko-'idshitoks rather had ; w^n- 

 nitoks quite strange, abbr. from weiinini different, curious, strange; 

 ndannantak hut for three, 142, 15. After substantives it is found 

 in 71, 7. 8. 

 (d). After adverbs like the following : k;inktak enough, so far, cf. kank 

 so much, so many ; tapitak rigJif after, cf tapi lastly, at last; tanktaks 

 long ago, cf tank some time ago; ka-itoks not at all, ka-itoks nu 

 hiishkanka ka-i gatpislit / despair entirely of Ms coming. 

 Cf. also page 531 (first example); it appears twice in hataktok right 

 there, at the same place; cf. htitak here. It connects itself also with many 

 conjunctions: at toks, ha'toksh, etc. 



B. — The particle tak serves in forming a future tense, though more 

 regularly in the Modoc than in the Klamath Lake dialect ; cf Future Tense. 

 This use is but a special application of the use indicated under D, q. v. 



C. — Tak is used in an adversative sense, to mark contrast, difference 

 in quality, time, etc., in such connections as the following: 



ka-itak ha i nish 161a I did you not helieve mef 



k6-idshitoks wfisham tchiileks coyote-meat is unpalatahle (when compared 

 to the meat of other quadrupeds). 



shnel^atoks hiink tchpinutat they formerly (hiink) cremated in the bury- 

 ing ground (but they do it no longer). 



D. — Tak, toksh serves to connect two co-ordinate sentences, when one 

 of these stands in an adversative relation to the other, though not syntac- 

 tically depending on it. It then corresponds to our hut, hoivever. 



na'dshak huk liishuakshlank K'mukamtchash, ndnka toks ka-i shana- 



ho'li one only consorted with K'mukamtch, hut the others did not want 



him, 95, 11. 

 .... na'sh wi-uka kshe'sh; kshawinasht tuksh kaftua wi-u;fant . . . . 



they gain one check; hut if they (the teeth) fall unequally, they win 



nothing, 80, 4. 5 ; cf 71, 2. 



Other particles connecting simple sentences are }> c n, t c h i s h, abbr. 

 tch, ts; tchek or tchik ; tchui, tsi'ti and its compounds tchiiyuk (tchiii 

 hiik), tchiiyunk (tchiii hiink), atchui (at fchi'ii), all these of a temporal im- 



