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. So I hear you are studying Manchu, eh? that’s right. Manchu is with us Manchus the first and foremost of essentials; it is to us, in short, what the language spoken in his own part of the country is to a Chinese; so it would never do to be without a knowledge of Manchu, would it?


 * donjici,
 * Condit. tense (6) of donjimbi to hear: I hear, but I am not sure, whether it is so


 * si
 * thou


 * te
 * now


 * manju
 * Manchu


 * bithe
 * book


 * tacimbi
 * Present Tense (2) to learn


 * sembi
 * (2) to say, here merely closing the report he heard


 * umesi
 * very


 * sain
 * good


 * manju
 * Manchu


 * gisun
 * word, speech


 * serengge
 * Future Part. of sembi to say, namely


 * musei
 * we, with genitive affix i, of us


 * manjusai
 * Manchus, gen. plur. sa-i


 * oyonggo
 * important


 * baita
 * thing, matter


 * uthai
 * therefore, it is as


 * nikasai,
 * pl. of nikan Chinese (nikasa) with gen. affix i of the Chinese


 * meni meni
 * every


 * ba
 * place


 * i
 * genitive affix


 * gisun
 * word, speech


 * i
 * genitive affix


 * adali
 * alike, similar to


 * bahanarakūci
 * Fut. (5) of bahanambi comprehend, with negation akū and oci Conditional (6) of ombi to be, you should know


 * ombio
 * Pres. Tense (2) of ombi to be, with interrogative o, will that do?