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is not a common form, and the regular method of marking the absence of the third 

 person is by prefixing the particle wk (see below). 



Possessive Peonouns. 



C tE-n (masc), tle-n (f em.), my. f tE . . . -tcit, our. 



Singular] tE, thy. ' PluraK tE . . . -yap, your. 



[ tE . . . -s, hisorher.s. LtE . . . -swet, their. 



The distinction in the possessive, marking the absence or presence of the object 

 seen in N'tlaka'pamuQ, is wanting in the Sk-qo'mic. In the latter dialect there is but 

 the one common form, but it possesses a masculine and a feminine for the first person 

 singular, which is unknown in N'tlaka'pamuQ. The function of this gender I have 

 already dealt with on p. 499. Besides tEn and tlEn we find for this person two 

 other forms used alike by males and females. These are seti and hSun. According 

 to my informants they can be used almost in any expression in the place of the regu- 

 lar tED and tlEn forms. I found them in such expressions as ms-qOi-nuq-fids seu 

 sk'umai', 'he killed my dog ; ' liuEti m.EtniiEn, ' my sons.' 



In conjunction with the verbum substantivum and a demonstrative, they are thus 

 expressed : — 



netl 'n lamti, this is my house ; netl so'otl lam ti, this is our house. 

 „ u-lam ti, „ thy „ „ ti lam-yap, this is your house. 



„ lam-s ti, „ his „ „ ,, lam s-wet, this is their house. 



Substantive Possessive Peonouns. 



These forms are used in answer to such questions as ' Whose is this ? ' 



netl 'n-swa, it is mine ; netl so'otl, it is ours. 



„ u-swa, „ thine ; „ u-swayap, „ yours. 



" ^^^-^9Ss " ,,^'''1 .. swa-s-wet, „ theirs. 

 „ swa-s (a'tli) „ hers ; J 



Inflectional Subjective Pronouns. 



!tcin-,I. C tcit-, we. 



tcuq-, tauq-, auq-, thou. Plural 1 tcap-, you. 



— he, she (present). I wet, etsi, they (present). 



HE „ (absent). InBwet, „ (absent). 



In the perfect and future tenses and in certain other constructions the tcin and 

 tcit of the first person singular and plural undergo a modification and change to 

 tcan and teat respectively. 



There are modifications of all the pronominal forms in the conditional, dnbita- 

 tive, desiderative, and other moods of the verb. iFor these irregular forms see 

 under ' Verbs.' 



Construction of Peonouns with Verbs. 



The transitive verb forms are not in Sk-qo'mic distinct from the intransitive and 

 verbum substantivum forms as in N'tlaka'pamuQ. The only difference between the 

 two forms is in the third person, which takes the characteristic terminal -s or -es in 

 both numbers, and this only in the past and future tenses, thus : nE-k-o'k-Ot-iJ«, he 

 struck (it) ; nE-k-o'k-ot-ES-wc'i, they struck (it). 



It will be observed that the pronoun in Skqo'mic precedes the verb in regular 

 constructions ; in N'tlaka'pamuQ it follows it. In certain constructions the pronoun is 

 placed after the verb in Sk-qo'mic. When so placed a different sense is given to the 

 expression, thus : ' Niim-tcin tlatown ' means ' I am going to town,' but ' tcin-niim tla 

 town ' means, on the contrary, ' I have been to town,' or, I am going back from town.' 

 Again, in answering a question, it is usually suffixed ; thus in answer to the question, 

 ' otcuq Esk'oi ? ' ' are you sick ? ' the answer would heii'd-tcan Bsk-vi, or shortly u'd-tcav . 

 In such instances the vowel is always changed to a. This applies equally to the 

 plural form. 



INTEBEOGATIVE PRONOUN. 



/o- 1 xo--i^ 1.^ f su5.t kue nE-tas ti? who made or did that ? 

 (Singular) Suat ? who ? ^^g- ^ ^^ , ^r suat kue'tsi ? who is that ? 



