466 Al'PENDIX. 



Possessive insepaixible affixes. 



my, of me, by me. 

 thy, of thee, by thee, 

 his, hers, its, by him, &c. 



our, by us, including speaker and spoteu to. 

 our, by us, excluding the party spoken to. 

 your, by you. 

 their, by them. 



Objective governed by Active Verbs. 



me. 



thee. 



him, her, it. 



we, including speaker, and party spoken to. 



we, excluding the party spoken to. 



ye. 



them. 



The demonstrative pronouns, whicli are iibuiiduni;, add greatly 

 to the precision of meaning by pointing out definitively the posi- 

 tion, nearness, or distance of the persons or things spoken of. 

 The following are examples : — ao, there, at a short distance ; eo, 

 there, nearer at hand ; io, close by, this one ; itsy, this, or there ; 

 ity, this ; iny, that ; itikitra, this, in this place ; iretsy, those ; 

 irery, those withiii sight, but more distant than iretsy; irony, 

 these ; izato, this one ; ireroa, those yonder. Besides these, there 

 are relative pronouns — izay and izany, both meaning that, or 

 which; also interrogative pronouns — iza, zovy, who, which; 

 inona, what ; nahoana, Avhy ; akory, how, &c. 



Amongst the verbs, there is one substantive verb misy, signify- 

 ing there is, or there are ; and there are three others which are 

 used as auxiliaries, — viz., mety, maliay, and mahazo. Mety signi- 

 fies right, fit, lawful. Mahay signifies knowledge, skill, ability. 

 Mahazo signifies to get, to obtain — physical ability. 



The moods of the verbs are the indicative and the imperative ; 

 the subjunctive and jjotential being formed of the indicative, 

 with parts of the auxiliary verb. The tenses are past, present, 

 and future. Additional tenses expressive of more definite time 



