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Plural. 



1. vild [an] we were, 



% vild [av] ...... ye were. 2. vedhj [av] 



3. vild [av] ...... they were. 3, vedhj [av] 



Pluperfect Tense. 

 Singular. 



1. vedhj-it [am'] I had been. 



2. vedhj -it [at]. . thou hadst been. 



3. vedhj-it he had been. 



Plural. 

 1. vedhj [an] ... we have been. 

 ye have been, 

 they have been. 



Plural. 



1. vedhj-it [an]., we had been. 



2. vedhj-it [av].. ye had been. 



3. vedhj-it [av].. they had been. 



CONDITIONAL AND SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD. 



Present Future Tense. Perfect Tense. 



Singular. Plural. 



1. vao-amo.. ....... I may or should be. 1. vedhj -vao-am. . . I may have been, 



&c. &c. &c. &o. 



The Interrogative 

 is formed by affixing & to the verb, when there is no other interrogative 

 adverb or pronoun in the sentence. 



E. g. til kdhr-gdt-1 = has thy anger come ? 

 but : tsez-ar at yat why hast thou come ? 

 Negative. 

 The ordinary negative consists of the syllable na prefixed to the verb. 

 But in the Imperative or Optative the syllable ma is used instead. 

 E. g. na kan-am, I make not. 

 ma han^ make not [thou]. 



Numerals. 

 The Numerals are as follows :— 



iv or % one. 



dhau or dha two. 



haroi ......... ,.... three. 



tsavur aea four. 



jpinz five. 



hhel , six. 



wd seven. 



wolcht eight. 



neaw . ## nine. 



dhes-at-i eleven, 



vist .. twenty. 



vist-at-i twenty- one , 



si thirty. 



ehal forty. 



jpinju fifty. 



altmish [Turki] ... sixty. 

 Sfc * &c. 



sad a hundred. 



hazor a thousand. 



dhes ten. 



A half = naim ; a quarter = tsavur lalah. 

 One and a half = iv -at -naim, 8fc. 



Numeral Adjectives 

 Add the syllable ao to the ordinary Numerals. 

 E. g. iv-ao first, dhau-ao second, &c. 

 * The remaining multiples of ten up to ninety are borrowed from the Turk*. 



