§§ 145—48.] the iktbansitive terb. 77 



2. Respectful Futtjre. 



srr^ deklialjdet, or sit^cITI dekhaJ jdeC <ja, 'you 

 will see,' or 'will be pleased to see'. 



3. Mild Impeeatite. 



^fef dekliiha, 'see you', or 'see ye'. 



Infestitive or Verbal Nouw. 



§ 145. ^^IRT dekhah, 'to see'. 



CHAPTER X. 



THE INTRANSITIVE VERB. 



§ 146. Theoretically speaking, as abeady pointed out, the Neuter Verb 

 should be wanting in all those tense-forms, which in the Transitive Verb 

 fall under Form II ; i. e. those in which special respect is attributed to the 

 object. Such, however, is not altogether the case, for the Neuter Verb, while 

 affecting most of the tense-forms of Form I, also indulges pretty freely in 

 those of Form II. What tense forms it uses and what it discards will be 

 learned from the following paradigms. 



§ 147. The conjugation of the Past Tense, in the Neuter Verb, differs in 

 many I'espeets from that of the same tense in the Verb Transitive, and 

 should be noted. 



In the Transitive Verb there are two conjugational forms of the Perfect 

 Tense. In the Neuter Verb there is only one. It is formed by subjoining the 

 word ^rfw achli, to the conjugated Past Tense. Only one or two inflexions 

 of the second conjugational form are used in the 2nd person non-honorific. 



§ 148. The verb ^jcT^ sutah 'to sleep', is an example of a verb whose 



