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A Grammar of the Chhattisgarhi dialect. 
161. 
( 1 .) 
( 2 .) 
INFINITIVES OR VERBAL NOUNS 
WWW 
J 
oblique WW ~ 
Acc WW-3TT 
Instr. and so on V 
sj 
1 The act of 
‘ to move.' 
(3.) UWW 
moving,’ 
162. Similarly is conjugated tbe 'ftww ‘ to come out ’ ( 
‘come out’), ‘separate.’ As this root contains a long vowel, it is 
shortened when it falls in the antepenultimate. 
The four simple tenses are as follows : 
Indicative ; Preterite : IT ■ftz'V, ‘ I came out.’ 
Future : w* 1 1 shall come out,’ w^ ‘ thou 
wilt come out,’ and so on. 
Conjunctive Present: w* ‘ (If) I come out.’ 
Preterite : *T fawrww, ‘ (If) I had come out.’ 
The Periphrastic tenses are quite easy ; thus, Indicative, Present, 
‘I am coming out,’ and so on. 
163. Transitive verbs are conjugated in the same way. An 
example is wlgw 1 to cover ’ rfig, ‘ cover ’). Thus : — 
164. Indicative ; Preterite : ‘ I covered,' Sfc. 
Person. 
Singular. 
Plural. 
1. 
wm 
WTUW 
2. 
Wit or WTVW 
wtvw 
3. 
wifqw 
WtfijW 
165. Future : W* WtfirsY, ‘ I shall cover ; ’ w" Wtqit, 1 thou wilt 
cover,’ and so on. 
166. Conjunctive ; Present : w^wIrt, ‘ (If) I cover.’ 
167. Preterite : W ! 'w s f'?TWW, * (If) I had covered.’ and so on. 
CHAPTER XIII, Vocalic Roots. 
168. When a root ends in a vowel, the conjugation is slightly 
different, owing to the fact that, when the termination commences with 
a vowel, an euphonic w or W is usually inserted. In the future, however, 
the terminations , &c., which commence with lose that vowel. 
The following examples will make the matter clear. 
