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 OP VERBS. 95

THE PRINCIPAL PARTS OF THE VERB.

From the root in ^, the present verbal participle is formed, by adding & 313 in the superior, and & in the inferior dialect ; thus, $~ k* 3, to beat, makes S^kg *$> or ^^>^),beatinff> The participle &c&^ from the root &o2Sb to be, may be added,, as an auxiliary, to each of these participles, which, by the rules for Sund.hi, make -vSa-^)^ and *&><&>. respectively ; hence i $ rn ^^^^. and rt ^'S3^>^ beating.

The past verbal participle is formed by changing ^ of the root into ; in her words, as expressed in the table, by adding 9 to the root in ^> the final > being dropped: thus, from ^? to beat, comes >~&, having beaten.

The infinitive is formed by merely dropping the final ^ of the root ; thus, 315 from the root ^^> comes &*$>, to beat.

INDICATIVE MOOD.

The present tense is derived from the present verbal participles ; the past tense from the past verbal participle ; the future and the affirmative aorist from the root, and the negative aorist from the infinitive, by the addition of the affixes shewn in the table, which consist partly of certain terminations defin- ing the several persons singular and plural, partly of particles interposed between these personal terminations, and the principal parts of the verb, whence the tenses are derived.

PERSONAL TERMINATIONS.

The personal terminations of the verb are derived from the substantive pronouns.

The personal terminations of the first and second persons are, 318 For all the tenses, except the first form p thejirstform of the pa, t tmse. of the past tense ..... . ............. f Singular ...... 1 > .......................................... ..... .................... > 2sf ...} ^J"' !. .1... .!. ..I.. ........... ...... Plural ......... 1 sSbo ................................................................ ^ . 2 & ......... ,,,,,,, Mt.t... in* .................. ................. 9