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w 



Singular. Plural. 



"Marihan . marehal. 



" Manhai . . mareho. 



" Marihai ... marehai. 



<, r " ■^k* 8 tense ilas g° ne through various changes of meaning 

 ^ (just as the old present has become the present conditional 



"Th 1 ~^' ^ nd in Kaslimiri is actually a past conditional. 

 "A hai ' efc °'' ,S a termination > not the verb substantive, 



^ the h representing an old s or ah. Thus Sanskrit mari- 

 shyanii, Prakrit marissami, marihami, modern marihafi." 

 tf. O Brien, op. cit., pp. v and vi, on the Multani future. 



(4) The ordinary Urdu form of the past conditional is 

 aJso in use, for example, — 



# nm sfi^r mwt »r ^fm wt mf ^? srrrrr je aj thora pani 



na hohta to tor charh jata = If such a little water were not 

 running to-day, it would flow up (on to the fields). 



If the aj were omitted, the sense might equally be ' if 

 8ttch a little water had not been running, it would have flown 

 up (on to the fields). 



§ 24. The Future Conditional. 



Future conditionals are expressed as in Urdu — 



/ \ 1 1 



in,) by the use of the aorist, when a general assertion is 



taade, e.g.— 



T *Wr ^ «rp7 rft ^ ^ ^TO ^t «rT3r. je pachhwa chaJ jae 



to same ki as ho jae. If the west wind blows, there is hope of 

 a good year ; 



(*) by the use of the future, when the future nature of 

 the contingency h»» to be emphasized, e.g.,— 



$ 3 ^T* #irr <ff # *?re?rT. je tu kat leg& to main 



marunga. 



If you cut it , I shall beat you. 



There is, however, another form. If, in the first example 

 above, it i s desired not to express a general truth, but to 

 indicate the fact that if only the west wind would begin to 



Wow now, there is still hope of a good year, the % hai will be 

 added to the first part of the sentence as in the past conditional, 



e -9-, 



<***T ^r mv % ?fT *3t *ft WJ *t «rT*. je pachhwa chal jae 



jae 



added 



°nly to the 3rd person singular. 



.. § 25. The other tenses of the active voice accord with 

 those in use in ordinary Urdu. The following idiomatic uses 

 of tenses already discussed may be conveniently noted 



