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of verbs. Examples: hatsh eliusmi, I did; uetsh egisini, thou didst; utsh 

 eusini, he did. 



The letter h shows the first person singular; i or ff indicates the second 

 person. The omission of the above-named letters is also a sign of the third 

 person singular, and the addition of s shows the third person plural. 



Moods are three, indicative, subjunctive, imperative; and there is also 

 a participial form. Examples: hatsh hatUashet', I hold; u-cfsh itliashctin, thou 

 heldest; hatsh enkusianirjin, 1 do (subjunctive); ewas/mi, do (imperative); 

 dini, doing (participle). There is no true infinitive, but the participle is 

 often so understood. 



Tenses are six : 

 Present, etahani, I do. 



Imperfect, etahanegin, I did. 



Perfect, ehusini, I have done. 



Pluperfect, ehUsinigin, 1 had done. 



First future, ekukasiani 1 shall do. 



Second future, enkusini I shall have done. 



Present tense has no definite tei'minations. 



Imperfect is formed by adding the syllable egin or gin to the present. 

 All past tenses are generally characterized by the termination in, which 

 does not assume any modification in the second or third person, either sin- 

 gular or plural. 



Tlie future tenses have no definite terminations either ; but sometimes 

 the syllable ku or kuk or the letter n in the beginning of the verb denotes 

 the future tense. 



EXAMPLES OF MODIFICATIONS OF VERBS. 



