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Hiralal Kavyop.iphyaya and G. A. Grierson — 
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Perfect. 
Pluperfect. 
Future Exact. 
Conjunctive, — Present. 
Preterite. 
Future. 
Present Durative. 
Future Exact. 
2nd Preterite. 
Imperative, — Present. 
The Imperative has also an Honorific form. 
Tenses may be also divided into simple (or Radical and Participial), 
and Periphrastic. The former are formed by taking the Root or a 
Participle, and adding the personal terminations direct. The latter are 
formed with the aid of auxiliary verbs subjoined to the present or 
past participle. Classifying them according to this system we got 
Simple, — Indicative, — Preterite and Future ; Conjunctive, — Present 
and Preterite ; Imperative, — Present and Honorific. 
Periphrastic, — Indicative, — Present Definite, Imperfect, Durative 
Future, Perfect, Pluperfect, and Future Exact ; Conjunctive, — Future, 
Durative Present, Future Exact and 2nd Preterite. 
In the following Paradigms, the tenses will be classed according to 
this last system. First the Simple and then the Periphrastic tenses, in 
order. 
The tenses are formed in the following way : 
A. Simple Tenses. 
98. The Preterite Indicative is formed by adding the following 
terminations to the root : 
Person. 
Singular. 
Plural. 
1st 
& 
wu 
2nd 
?r or JW 
Wr 
3rd 
XU 
XU 
99. The Future indicative is formed by adding the following 
terminations to the root. This tense has two forms, one used by the 
polite and the other by the vulgar. 
