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§ 5. Examples of Choctaw adverbs. 



Yes, yea, yau, all, i, ome. 



Nay, not, no, keyu, alig;li, hg,, heto, awa, (haia, Chikasaw). 



Mvxch, laua, fehna, apakna. 



Little, kanomusi, iskitine, chvbihasi. 



Once, liimona, himonaha. 



Twice, liitukla, liituklaha. 



Thrice, hituchina, hituchinaha. 



First, vmmona, tickba. 



Secondly, ont atukla. 



Thirdly, ont atuchina. 



Now, himak, hinio. 



Then, yvnima. 



To-day, himak nitak. 



To-morrow, onna. 



Yesterday, pilashash. 



Upward, vba pila, vbema, vba imma. 



Downward, oka pila, akema, ak imma, aket. 



Beyond, mish sha. 



Soon, cheki. 



Enough, vUpesa. 



Perhaps, chishba, yobaka. 



Truly, §Lhli (from vhli, the limit). 



Hither, anet. 



This side of, ola. 



Toward, pila. 



Merely, peli. 



CHAPTEE YIII. 



CONJUNCTIONS. 



§ 1. Conjunctions connect words, sentences, clauses and paragraphs, 

 and commence and close sentences. They are definite and distinctive. 



Definite conjunctions usually end with t, vt, or a ; as, mihmvt, mihma, 

 and. The distinctives end with osh or o; as, mihi osh, mihio. Some are 

 both definite and distinctive ; as, okvt, oka, where ok, a demonstrative 

 distinctive, is combined with vt and a definite. 



§ 2. They take some of the article-pronouns to exhibit the nominative 

 and oblique cases; as, mihmvt, nom. case, and he, mihma, oblique case, 

 and him ; mih is used as a personal pronoun in the third person singular. 

 Mihmvt is literally "he then he ;" mihma, "he then him ;" mihmvt con- 

 tains the verb of existence (h predicative) and the subjective copula ; 

 mihma likewise contains the verb of existence, and solves the subjective 

 copula, and thus it acts on the subject — the subjective copula being solved, 



