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Mode. 



§ 6j . The following modes may be enumerated : imperative 

 indicative, optative, conjunctive, conditional, supine, perfective, 

 potential, evidential, inchoative. ' 



§ 68. The Yukaghir language has no infinitive mode. It is 

 replaced by the supine. But when naming an action for illus- 

 tration, I translate the English infinitive by giving the base of 

 the Yukaghir verb (see § 65). 



§ 69. Before proceeding to explain the formation of voices 

 and other derivative forms, which are so numerous in the Yuka- 

 ghir language, and which are called " aspects " in the Slav 

 languages, or as the well-known Russian philologist, Nekrassoff, 

 -calls them ** degrees of action," I shall point out how the ver- 

 bal bases are being inflected according to modes, since all verb 

 bases, no matter of what voice or degree of action, are inflected 

 in the same manner with reference to mode. 



§ 70. Every verb has two forms of conjugation, the definite 

 and the indefinite. 



§ 71. The indefinite has three forms in the indicative mode, a 

 positive, a negative, and an interrogative. 



§ 72. The imperative mode has two forms, a positive and a 

 negative. 



§ 73. The forms of the imperative mode are the same for 

 transitive and for intransitive verbs. 



§ 74. The indicative mode has different forms for transitive 

 and for intransitive verbs. 



§ 75. The following tables illustrate the indefinite conjunction 

 of transitive and intransitive verbs. 



