LANGUAGES OF THE KILIMA-NJABO BIST BIOT. 471 
Past Tense. 
Affirmative, Negative. 
Atendki, I was bound. Itudten&ki , I was not bound. 
Itenaki, Thou wast bound. Ituitennki , Thou was not bound. 
And so on. &c. 
Adding -ki to termination of past tense, indicative* active voice. 
Future Tense. 
Alaeni, I shall be bound. 
&c. 
Imperative Mood. 
Te?mki, be thou bound. 
Endenaki, be ye bound. 
Besides the above-mentioned tenses, others can be 
formed by the aid of auxiliary verbs, as :— 
Aidipa atena , I had bound, I have already bound; lit. I have 
finished, I have bound. 
Ituaidip atena , I had not bound, &c. 
Ayau naen , I would bind; lit. I would, will, desire that I bind. 
Many verbs, especially derivatives, and those com¬ 
mencing with i, make their past tense differently from 
the mode already described, viz. by simply affixing a 
to the root. Thus :— 
Aidip , I finish. 
Aidipa , I finished. 
Aiken , I count. 
Aikena , I counted. 
The mode of forming the past tense in other verbs 
is, as in the first example, given by prefixing 4a, 4e, 
4i, 4o , or 4u, to the root, and adding a to stems 
ending in a consonant, as 
A-t-ena "1 
/ ix \ > I bound. 
(properly a-te-ena), J 
A-ta-sama, I loved (from gam, to love). 
A-ii-riga, 1 equalled (from rig, to equal). 
A-to-roro, I trod (from roro, to tread). 
A-iu-suma, I put down (from gum , to put dowm). 
