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This tense is the Compound Future-Present Indefinite, but the simple 
Fut. Pres. Indef. is more used : 
The Compound Future Present Indefinite Tense. 
1. QWLa-dur-iJcan-m&n “ I may be doing.” 
2. QELa-ditr-ikan-san “ thou mayest he doing.” 
3. qel a-dur-ikan “ he may be doing” &c. 
(e.) Qel a-dur id- im. Here the aux. Past Tense idi is added to the 
Compound Future Present qela-dur-. As this latter means: “ (I am) 
standing (or in a continuous condition of) doing,” the above compound 
is “ I teas in the continuous condition of doing” hence “ I was about 
doing.” This may be called 
The Future Present Preterite. 
1. qel a-dur id- im “ I was about doing.” 
2. qe La-dur id- ing “ thou wast about doing.” 
3. qe La-dur id- i “ he was about doing.” 
&c. &c. 
(f), qel ip-dur id-im. As qelip-dur means “ (I am) standing (or in 
the continuous condition of) having done,” the above compound means “ I 
was in the continuous condition of having done” or “ I had done continu¬ 
ously”, hence “ I had been doing.” 
In another way, if we remember that qelip idim is the Pluperfect “ I 
had done”, it will at once be seen that the interposition of dur “ standing”, 
as qelip-dur-idim, must give it a continuative sense : “ I had been doing.” 
This is 
The Continuative Pluperfect. 
1. qpjjip-dur-id-\m “ I had been doing.” 
2. QEijip-dur-id-mg “ thou hadst been doing.” 
3. QEhip-dur-id-i “ he had been doing.” 
&c. &c. 
There remain a few forms which, although capable of being conjugated 
through all the persons and possessing specific meanings, yet being formed 
from Verbal forms other than the regular stem-elements, or by means of 
attached words other than the regular co-efficient elements, had better be 
kept distinct from the regular Tenses, as Verbal Expressions. 
(a.) qpjjish-im bar, &c. Changing the Possessive affix for each per¬ 
son. The form qelish meaning “ the doing” (see below in “ Verbal Sub¬ 
stantives”) bar being the impersonal verb “ is,” the above expression is 
literally : “ The doing (of so and so) is mine,” i. e., “ It is mine to do” or I 
have to do.” 
