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G. H. Damant — Notes on Manipnri Grammar. 



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Will you go ? 

 Will you not go ? 



Did you go ? 

 Did you not go ? 



Have you gone ? 

 Have you not gone ? 



Did you go ? 

 Did you not go ? 



Future. 



Chatkera, chatkadra 



Chatloidra 

 Impereect. 



Chatlurabra 



Chatludrabra 

 Perfect. 



Chatpra 



Chattabra 



AOEIST. 



Cbatlambra 

 Chatlamdra 



There is also a past interrogative chat-page, which is always used with 

 karl, as Tcari chatpage ? = why did you go ? Chatlibage is also used mean- 

 ing ' are you going ?' and chatlibage, meaning ' did you go ?' 



There appears to be no interrogative for the first person and the forms 

 in ra are common to both the 2nd and 3rd persons and the sing, and plural. 



Pronouns. 



The personal pronouns are — 



Ai or Ihak = I ; Nang or nahak === Thou ; Ma or mahak = He 

 The plural forms are — aikhoi, nakhoi, and makhoi. The forms ending in 

 Ti/lJc are either emphatic or honorific. All the pronouns are declined in the 

 same way, e. g. 

 Singular Nom. Nang Thou 



Gen. Nangi Of thee, thine 



Dat. Nanganda To thee 



Ace. Nangboo Thee 



Abl. Nangdagi From thee 



Plural Nom. Nakhoi You 



Gen. Nakhoigi Of you 



Dat. Nakhoida To you 



Ace. Nakhoiboo You 



Abl. Nakhoidagi From you 



The other pronouns are asi and aclu, this, and masi and madu, that. 

 There is also an interrogative pronoun hand or Jcandno who ?, which is 

 declined in the same way as the personal pronouns. 



There are no relatives in the language, and sentences containing a rela- 

 tive are expressed very awkwardly by using a verbal noun with the demon- 

 strative adu, thus — Where is the book which I gave you yesterday ? = 

 Gnarang aina nangandd piJchiba lairiJc adu kaidano ? 



