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Future. 
1st Pers. I or we shall strike xr5 r ^r or xr^T^H or 
2nd 
55 
3rd 
55 
Imperative . 
1st 
55 
xf^T^ Let me or us strike 
xf^r^j 
2nd 
55 
Xf^T 
or 
3rd 
55 
Infinitive and Present Participle. 
To strike or striking 
Verbal noun. 
tf^T«rT a striking 
Conjunctive Past Participle. 
having struck xt^tsqt &c., &c. 
Adverbial Past Participle. 
having struck 
Gerund. 
xj^tT^T striking 
&c., 
&c. 
&c. 
Inceptives and potentials are formed by the genitive of the gerund, 
and not by the infinitive, with »TTJl»r and xtt^tit respectively. Thus 
•TTJif 1 begin to strike. xj^rs^K xfiVT I can strike. 
With reference to the above Rangpuri forms, I would mention that in 
the course of my reading I have met many of them in plays, in the conver¬ 
sation of persons who are not supposed to inhabit Rangpur. I do not for a 
moment pretend either that the forms I have given are all necessarily 
peculiar to Rangpur, or that I have by any means suggested all the possi¬ 
ble varieties. I have only given the forms usually current amongst the 
lower orders of the District. 
Other Miscellaneous Grammatical forms. 
I have already shown one point of resemblance between Rangpuri and 
Hindi in the word “ I” ^tDt. 
There is another form of the genitive, which may, I believe, be con¬ 
nected with the well-known Hindi suffixes ^TT. and 3ft, signifying “ of." 
It is met in the books, or rather in the grammars, in the genitive of ^fTXffsr 
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