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1. (As in English) the nominative case of an active verb is its agent, and that of a passive verb its direct object.

2. The Nominative may have any of the following degrees of relation:—

The indicative mood alone has any tenses; these tenses are the three simple tenses—present, past, and future. As with Malagasy adjectives, so with the tenses of Malagasy verbs, n is the sign of the past, and h of the future.