C2 THE COKJUGATIOlf OF A TEAlfSITITE TEEB. [ §§ 131 — 132. 



CONJUGATION OF A TRANSITIVE VERB. 



Active Voice. 

 Model Verb delcJiah, " to see". 



Peincipal Paets. 



§ 131. 



Root ... dekh, "see." 



Present participle ... ^^er dehhait, " seeing". 



Past participle ... dek/ial, "seen". 



1. Fom- tenses are formed from the root dekh. 

 § 132. a. The peospectite co]srDiTio]srAL or Simple Peesent. 

 " (If) I see," (If) I should see," etc.* 



FoEM I. 



Used wTien no special respect is attributed to the object. 

 Masculine. 



Honorific. Non-Honorific. 



1st. P. ^^ft deklil^ %?§t dekU} 



2nrl P. dekhi^ delchah,^ 



3rd P. dekliatli ^ dekliau.* 



(1) Other forms are ^f%^ dehliiai, 'ffe^^ dehTiiaih. The forms ^^^l' 

 delcTiiau, ^f%^^ delcJiiaulc, and ^f'T^r^ deJcliiali,^ are also used, but only in 

 the first person. 



(2) Other forms are ^ deTch, ^'5^ dehliahah, ^^^fNi dehTialiih. 



The Feminine is conjugated like the masculine ; except that in the 2nd 

 person non-Honorific the form dehliali is not used, the form 



deWiaJiH being used instead. 



* In poetry this tense is frequently used in tlie sense of tbe Present. It is then called 

 the Simple Present in contradistinction to the Periphrastic Present formed 

 from the Present Participle. 



