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The numeral hun, one, is sometimes used for the indefinite article, 
and at other times as an indefinite pronoun ; as, hun chivichin aqui ya in, 
one of you must give me; hun vinak, a man. Reduplicated it means 
each one, as huhun chivichin abig mo hun che, Each of you must bring 
a stick. For ‘‘somebody,’’ the verb qoh, to be in a place, is used, as, 
qor wxbano, somebody did it, i.e. : ‘‘There was (who) did it.’’ 
The termination don, means ‘‘alone,’’ and is used with the possessive 
pronouns which precede consonants, it being a curious rule which holds 
good throughout this language that two initial vowels have the phonetic 
force of a consonant ; thus; 
nuton, I alone. kaion, we alone. 
aion, thou alone. yton, you alone. 
ruion, he alone, quiion, they alone. 
The negative ‘‘nobody’’ may be formed from hun, manthun, no one, 
as, manthun tibe chi rochoch, let no one go to his house, 
CHaprrer III. Or tur Verss. 
The verbs are rather difficult in this language on account 
of the variety of their compounds, and their number and 
diversity, because they have a particular verb for each specific 
act; thus, to eat, in its absolute sense is gu va, I eat, cat va, 
thou eatest, etc. For eating bread they say, tin vaih; for 
cating fruit or eggs, tn lo; for eating anything toasted, tin 
ax; for eating vegetables, tin vechaah. For this reason 
the whole difficulty in this language is in learning the verbs 
and their properties, and therefore something must be said 
about them, although it is a difficult topic. 
There are two kinds of verbs; one kind governs cases and 
the other does not. All those which govern eases are held to 
be active, although in the Latin language they may be neuters, 
or deponents or common, ‘Those which do not govern cases 
are neuter, and it is necessary to know this, because there are 
four classes of verbs, active, passive, neuter and absolute. The 
passive and the absolute are formed from the active verb, so 
that the active being known, the passive and the absolute can 
be formed, because, as I say, these are formed from the active 
Sum, es, fut. 
In this language there is no proper word to express this 
verb, and those who up to this time have employed a definite 
