The Potential Mood is either inherent in fome of the above tenfes, or formed by prefixing any contracted infinitive to the regular verb fukna posse, thus: But as fuch compounds are all regularly conjugated like other verbs, I need not detain the ftudent with the anticipation of what belongs to another place. (m) Or mŏŏj h- &c. ko. (0) See Chap. III. on the pronouns. (n) By contraction do, (though dep be the regular plural) which is most common. Compounded, I fuppofe, of hona and jana, and contracted from hojaeee, hojaeep, continue to be, do be; this form being much used in benedictions, &c. See the imperative of marna, and the note thereon. IN .to have been ہوا ہونا - جایا جانا p) Hooa hona or jya jana) FUTURE. Hooa or jya-chahna - to be about to be, PARTICIPLE S. PRESENT. Hota or jata - hota hooa and jy? jata being, and being then. are expreffed in the Hindooftance by the infinitive or perfect participle, as verbal declinable nouns in a, to the rules of which they are fubject. The infinitive, both as a gerund and adjective, which it fome (p) Alfo bona rubra, but the prefent of the infinitive is more ufed than the perfect form, and must also be tranflated as the latter, whenever it may be necellary to do so. Ff times times is, has a feminine inflection, a becoming ee, in concord with a noun of this gender. The reader muft by this time be perfectly acquainted with the perfonal pronouns; I fhall therefore in future denote them by the figures as the 1ft, 2d, and 3d perfon; and the number, as fingular or plural, will be apparent enough from the English of each tense and mood, the analysis of which is referved for another fection, that the conjugation of verbs may appear as confpicuous and connected as poffible, to accommodate the whole to general acquifition, and thence facilitate the enlargement on each tenfe hereafter. For by and hyn, the reader will remember that byga and hynge are in use, as also that the auxiliary figns are fometimes at a distance from their respective verbs. PRE The scholar muft carefully remark, that the regular plural termination of the perfect, and its compounds, as I have juft now given them, will ferve as a ftandard for all verbs not ftrictly tranfitive, like the present, which has confequently, in preference to the above inflections, mara, mara hy, mara tha, in the plural even, from the very extraordinary circumstance of active preterites in this language, being often more governed by their object than agent, as we fhall exemplify at large in the next fection, Myn mara boon, by or hyga, and hum mare hynge, &c. are all proper in the preterperfect above. CON |