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a takes mo to form a definite and indeclinable renewed mention in 

 recent past time, as Luke XVI. 13, aclivfa kamo, the one. 



The distinctive o in combination with the definite it, : 



ok takes vt in okvt, nom. case, contradistinctive. 



ok takes a in oka, oblique case. 



ok takes ah in okali, a distinctive and definite predicate. 



ok takes eh in okeh, a distinctive and absolute predicate. 



ok takes ato, vta, in okvta, nom. and okanto. 



ok takes ano or vno in okvno, oblique case. 

 , ok takes ak in okak, to double the definitive force of the pronoun. 



ok ak takes the pronoun o in okakosh, okako, as a strong definite and 

 concessive, Mark XV. 31. 



o takes mo in omo, renewed mention in the remote past tense, inde- 

 clinable. 



§ 14. The following table presents the values and significations of the 

 article-pronouns and their modifying particles, in a brief and compre- 

 hensive manner : 



a, V, e, i, definite, implying knowledge of the thing, act or individual 

 named ; as, wak a, the cow, not a or some cow. 



o, distinctive, generic, implying kind and ignoring other objects, but 

 not rendering the thing, act, or individual certain. It does not specify 

 particular objects, but merely distinguishes them ; as, wak o, a cow, not 

 a horse. 



ch, connective, and. 



h, predicative or affirmative, the sign of existence. 



k, deteiTuinate or demonstrative, that, the. 



kb, optative, wishing it were so, oh that ; definite ; the distinctive form 

 is okb. 



km, suppositive, conditional, or contingent, if, when, provided ; definite ; 

 the distinctive form is okm. 



m, successive, simultaneous, compellative, when, then, also, too, oh. 



mo, renewed mention distinctive, the same, the said ; omo, remotely 

 past ; amo, recently past. 



sh, renewed mention definite of recent past time. 



shkeh, definite affinnation, it is. 



okeh, distinctive affirmation, it is so and not otherwise. 



t, connective, continuative, definite ; a copula, and. 



y, euphonic. 



g,, o, i, nasals, objectives and copulas. 



In order that these modifications may be more perfectly understood, 

 some further explanations of the most important of them are added. 



§ 15. h predicative, or affirmative. The verb of existence, to be, does 

 not occur in Choctaw, and this particle suppUes its place. It is suffixed 

 to nouns, pronouns, infinitives, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunc- 

 tions, and article-pronouns, which end in a vowel, to form a proposition ; 



