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810 Trevor Bom ford — Language spoken in the Western Punjab. [No. 4, 
(11) Imperfect. 
I was being, &c. 
Compounded of present participle and past tense, as 
^jSjc mai honda bam. 
(12) Perfect. 
I have been, &c. 
Compounded of past participle with indefinite present, as 
hjA mai hoy a liS 
(13) Pluperfect. 
I had been, &c. 
Compounded of past participle with po-st tense, as 
mai hoy a liam. 
(14) Future. 
The formation of the future is, as has been said before, one of the 
peculiarities of Western Panjabi for as in Greek and Gujarati it is done 
with ‘ s \ The following endings are affixed to the root. 
a. 
Intransitive verbs 
1st sing. sa. 
2nd s§ 3rd si 
b. 
Transitive active 
„ „ esE 
,, esO ,, esi 
c. 
--passive 
„ „ isE 
„ ise ,, isi 
1st pi. sh 
2nd so 3rd. 
sin 
,, ,, esil 
,, eso ,, 
esin 
,r 
,, iso ,, 
Isin 
Tisdall in his notes on 
Punjabi grammar 
gives the following tables 
The future from the root ‘kar ’ in the following languages; 
Sing. 
Sanskrit. 
Prakrit. 
1st Pers. 
Karisyami 
Karissami 
2nd „ 
——isyasi 
-issasi 
3rd „ 
-isyati 
-issadi 
Plur. 
* 
1st Pers. 
-isyamas 
-issami 
2nd 
•-isyatha 
issadha 
3rd ,, 
-isyanti 
-issanti 
Gujarati. 
West Panjabi. 
Correct West Panjabi. 
Kavis 
Karsa ^ 
KaresS 
-se 
-s! 
1 
-es§ 
-se 
—si 1 
’— esi 
Karisu 
r 
-sa 
-esft 
-so 
— -so 
-OsO 
-se 
-san J 
• 
-esin 
