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E. O’Brien —Notes on Kdngra Dialect. 
Examples. 
Adehd guar koi mere dehhne vich nahih aeat. 
No fool like this came within my experience (within my 
seeing) .* 
Seh sahab hadehd he. 
What is that sahib like ? 
Jadehd agld thd tadeha hi lie. 
As the former was like that exactly is he. 
Auxiliary verb Rond, “ to be.” 
Present. 
Singular. 
Maiii hdh,“ I am.” 
Tic he, “you are.” 
Oh he, “ he is. ” 
Plural. 
Assdh hah, “ we are ” (hu). 
Tussdn hah, “ you are ” (hu). 
Seh hcih, “ they are ” (hin), 
Future. 
Main hongha, “I will be. ” Assdh honghe, “ we will be ” (bhole). 
Tu hongha, “thou wilt be. ” Tussdn honghe, “you will be ” (bhole). 
Sehhongha, “ he will be. ” Seh honghe , “ they will be ” (bhole). 
The past tha, “ was, ” is like Hindi. 
Aj mere boti Teaman pichhe he rahi gae hah 
To-day my k ^f n servants have remained behind. {Kdngra). 
Tussdn aj hal hia pahrde hah ? 
What are you reading nowadays ? 
Eh Rajput halhe hdh. 
These are low Rajputs.— {Kdngra). 
Kasora ri wife bari khundar he. 
Kasora’s daughter is very handsome.— {Gddi of Dharamsdla), 
Athdhun te pahile jo sahib thu so hhara thu. 
The sahib who was before him, he was good. 
Pronominal Adverbs of direction like idhar “ hither, v udhar 
“thither ,” jidhar “whither,” tidhar “thither,” hidhar “ whither,” 
seem to be wanting in Jandari.t 
* This would be in Gadi :—Mha gowar mere herne ma 11 a a 
No fool like this came within my seeing. 
(Observe—“ herna,” to see , 
“ ma ” for manj , in, 
‘‘ a, ! ’ 3rd singular past tense of dnd t “ to 
come ”=dyd). 
f Jandar or Jhandar is the term used by the Gaddis for the country net included 
in their country, the Gadderan. [It literally means ‘ cotton-clothed, 5 i.e., the people 
not dressod in woollen garments like the Gaddis.] 
