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Other tenses may be manufactured on the analogy of Hindi, but 
they are not in frequent use. Thus, ^ 3iTT«T suh kardn asi, 
equivalent to the Hindi ^ ^fTJTT wall kar'td lioga, he will (pro¬ 
bably) be making. It is unnecessary to make a list of these. They 
can be made up as required. 
Some verbs are irregular in the use of their tenses. These are the 
following. 
The root sust zan, know, when it means to know how to do a thing, 
uses the Future in the sense of the Present (viii. i. 58). Thus,— 
^nfsr karun zani, he knows how to make a thing. 
gjT5f*r parun zdnan, they know how to read. 
So also, snfiT syathdh zani , he knows a great deal. 
grrfa vidya zani, he is a learned man (lit. he knows 
knowledge). 
In the same way, in writing the ceremonial part of a letter, a past 
tense is sometimes used instead of the imperative. Thus, tfiro 
tamis lyukhu-th son u namaskdr, to him was there written- 
by-thee our compliment, i.e., write our compliments to him. 
The root ttjvj path, be, become, has no regular Present; and uses 
the Future for that tense (viii. i. 59). Thus,— 
path a , I am. xrrsjg paihaw, we are. 
pathakli , thou art. Trifag pgthiv, you are. 
*rrf^T pathi, he is. *TTV1«T pathan, they are. 
For the Past tense, the following forms are used. 
1 xnW pdthahg, I was. pathahav, we were. 
2 pathahakh, thou tjf'prifa patliGilv, you were, 
wast. 
3 pdthihe, he was. pathahan, they were. 
These forms are properly those of the Past Conditional. This verb 
has no verbal nouns. 
Gender, Number and Person. 
Gender. 
The verb has two Genders, Masculine and Feminine. The Future 
Indicative, and the Imperative, Benedictive, and Conditional Moods, 
do not however, make any change for Gender. Their Masculine aud 
Feminine forms are identical. 
