706 



Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [Extra No. 



as 



partieipl 



Singular. 





• t 



main karun tha 

 tu kare tha 

 oh kare tha 



Plural. 

 ^ ^Kf $ . . ham katan the. 





turn karo the. 

 we karen the. 



I (etc.) was doing it. 



§ 



The Past Unfulfilled Conditional. 



Ian 



The structure of this tense is the most curious in the 



It is formed 



the ordinary aorist. 



addin 



In the correlative part of the sentence it is optional to 



omit the termination lr hai, e.g., 



1st Singul 



$ % s& ^ % tit ^ n^ , 



©v. ' 



je maid nyun karuh hai 

 (hai). 



to main martin 



2nd Singular. #'£ 4 «t % ift £ 1ft (%) 



3rd Singular. 



1st Plural. 



2nd Plural. 



3rd Plural. 



had 



je tu nyun kare hai to tu mare (hai). 

 je oh nyuh kare hai to oh mare (hai). 



je ham nyuh karah hai to ham marah (nai). 



* g« «i *<t % *t gw «tf (%) 



je turn nyun karo hai to turn maro (nai/. 

 je we nyun karen hai to we maren (nai;. 



(i) 



Notes. 



fact that the auxiliary verb is W 

 rson % se not % hai, and the fact t 



has 



with 



(2) The same tense exists in Multani. See O'Brien s 

 glossary of the Multani language, page vii, where the termina- 

 tion is given as ha and Mr. O'Brien thought the tense was 

 peculiar to Multani. He believed ha to be the substantive verb, 

 though page v shows it is not. 



(3) Dr. G'rierson, to whose notice I brought the existence 

 of this tense, suggests that it is probably really an old future, 

 something of the nature of 



