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Passive verbs: clii tallakcliili, bound thee it is. 



Neuter verbs : chi abekali, thee sick be. 



chi acliukniah, thee good be. 



sa yonhali, me fever be. 

 Names of members, and relatives: sa nushkoboli, my head, me head, it is. 



sa cliukvsli', it is my heart. 



svsoh, it is my son. 



satekcliili, it is my wife. 



svpvfv, my dog, it is my family dog. 



sabaiyih, it is my nephew. 



subbitek', it is my niece. 



The h predicative, or its accent ', will be observed at the end of these 



sentences. 



§ 14. The objective possessive. 



Affirmative form, 

 a, am, vm, vmi, an, sa, sam, sum, sumi, san, my, of me, to me, for me, 



from me, &c. 

 chi, chim, chimi, chin, of thee, etc. 



i, im, imi, in, of him, her, it. 



pi, pim, pimi, pin, of our (def ). 



hvpi, hvpim, hvpimi, hvpin, of our (dis). 



' hvchi, hvchim, hvchimi, hvchin, of your, 



i, im, imi, in. of their. 



Negative form, 

 ik sa, iksam, iksvm, ik san, not of me, not to me, not for me. 



ik chi, ikchim, ikchin, not of the, etc. * 



ik i, ik im, ikin, not of him, her, it, etc. 



ik pi, ikpim, ikpin, not of us. 



ik hvpi, ikhvpim, ikhvpin, not of us. 



ik hochi, ikhvchim, ikhvchin, not of you. 



ik i, ikim, ikin, not of them. 



§ 15. This class of pronouns is used where there is an acquisition and 

 possession, but not an implied ownership as a part of the thing spoken of.' 

 Thus; § shapo, my hat (French, cTiapeau); vmissuba, my horse; an chuka, 

 my house, ai-e things acquired and possessed; but sanuslikobo, my head; 

 svbbak, my hand; are integral parts of my person. A few nouns relating 

 to the person take the possessive pronouns; as, vmiskonata foni, my col- 

 lar-bone; vmi uksak foni, my ankle bone. 



§ 16. These pronouns are prefixed to nouns and verbs, transitive, in- 

 transitive, passive, and neuter. Before nouns they may be translated, of 

 Mm, of her, in the singular, and of them in the plural; as, Chan in chuka, 

 John of him house, John's house ; Chan micha. Chemis in chuka, John 

 and James's house, or houses, for them, of them, etc. 



Before transitive and intransitive verbs they may be rendered by to, for, 



1 An analogous lilflference occurs in construction in the Algonkin dialects : " Les 6tres qui tiennent 

 leur manifire d'etre du Createur, prennent la marque du possessif. Les etres qui tiennent leur 

 maniere d'etre de I'liomme ne le preunent pas." Eludes Philologiques sur quelques Lanc/ues Sau- 

 vages de VAmerique, p. 44. 



