1840.] Grammatical construction of the Ho language. 1001 



Interrogative Pronouns. 



Okoi, who? chikan, which? chia, what? 



0\iO\k, whose ? c\i\\i2ii\9., of which ? 



Relative Pronouns. 



Relative pronouns are very vague, the sentence being generally 



so rendered as to obviate the necessity of them, thus, instead of saying, 



The man who went ; a Kole would say, The gone man^ " Senien 



Horo." 



But at times " Chikana," whatever^ and " Ena," that^ are used 



relatively, as " Chikana um kajeed, ^na eeng aiooma," what you say, that 



I will listen to. 



Verbs. 



Verbs are either active or neuter. There is no passive voice. 



The Infinitive mood is formed by adding ted to the root. 



The Present participle by adding tan or te. 



The Past participle by affixing kedte. 



In the active or transitive voice, the Present tense Indicative mood, 

 adds to the root '* tanna^^ in the neuter voice, " ahanna'^ 



The Imperfect tense there is none, the Present tense being used, 

 and its Imperfect signification understood by the context. 



The Perfect tense is formed by adding in the active voice, " kidda, 

 keea, kenna, lidda^ or tadda" to the root. In the neuter voice, " lena" 

 or " Una" sometimes " henna" 



There is no Pluperfect tense, but greater completion is expressed by 

 conjugating the verb " chabtea," tojinishy added to the root ; much the 

 same way as " chookna" in Hindustanee. 



The Future is formed by adding to the root eea or oa, or sometimes 

 simply a, in which latter case the sound of the root is prolonged. 

 Except " nooitea," to drinh, which makes " noonooa ;" and " rotea," 

 to gore (as a bull) " roroa." 



The Imperative is formed by adding (in the 2nd person singular) to 

 the root, ^^ men" and ^^ omen" or " ymen" if the root end with a con- 

 sonant. In the other persons kd precedes the pronoun, and the simple 

 root of the verb, which will be more clearly shown in conjugating. In 

 a negative sense, " alum" or " alo" is prefixed to the 2nd personal pro- 

 noun, a being added to the root ; if in the 3rd person, singular, dual, 



