200 Languages of the various tribes inhabiting the [March, 



The Indicative Mood requires no explanation. As it merely indicates 

 or declares a thing, it is necessarily the verb in its simplest state. 



The Present Indefinite. Grd, or Gro-wa, sometimes pronounced Do, 

 or Dowa, I go, thou go est, &c. 



Jyed, or Jyed-wa, I do, thou doest, &c. 



The particle wa, here used, is properly speaking an emphatic particle. 



The Present Definite, is expressed by the reduplication of the final 

 letter, as already noted. 



Nga do-6 I am going. Kho do-6, he is going. 



Nga jyed-do, I am doing, Khyod jyed-do, thou art doing. 



The Imperfect is formed by the addition of the verb Dug-pa, signi- 

 fying to sit, to exist. 



Nga do-dug-pa, I was doing. 



Kho jyed-dug-pa, He was doing. 



The Perfect tense is formed by the addition of the word Song, sig- 

 nifying a departing or passing away. D6-song, went. — Nga jye-song } 

 / did or have done. 



With reference to the first example, it may be remarked that Song, 

 by itself, is more frequently used instead of the form above given, as 

 the perfect tense of the verb to go ; dd-song, being now obsolete, but 

 commonly used as a verbal noun, signifying gait, or the manner of 

 going. 



The Pluperfect tense is expressed in the following different forms. 

 Nga song-wa-yin, or, Nga song-dug-pa, I had gone. 



The auxiliary Yin, has the same signification as Dug, to be, to exist. 



Nga jye-dug-pa, or, Nga jye-pa-yin-pa, I had done. 



The Future tense. Nga do-par-jyeur, I shall go. 



Nga jye-par-jyeur, I shall do. 



Here, do-par, and jye-par, are the gerunds, signifying to go, and to 

 do ; and the auxiliary jyeur, signifies, a growing, a becoming. 



Participles. 



Present, Do, or Dopa, going. Jye, or Jye-pa, doing. 

 Past. Song-pa, gone. Jye-dug-pa, done, 



Gerund. 

 D6-par, to go, for the purpose of going. 

 Jye-par, to do, for the purpose of doing. 



