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 98 TELOOGOO GRAMMAR.

328 The negative aorist does not assume any prefix before the personal terminations*

PRESENT TENSE.

329 The personal terminations, connected with the intermediate particles for the present tense, are exhibited in the table ; thus, r> efo- q)-' D c 8fc-S>^a. &c. ' When these affixes are added to the present verbal participle, in order to form the present tense, the final *^> of the participle is dropped, and the present verbal participle, in all verbs, having four forms, viz. *&- &- T&r&v^- and &o&>^, the present tense, which is formed from the participles, has also four forms, viz. T^rfo . !?"*&> - Ji>'sr" < ^> - ^"Sr^rfo & c . thus, the present verbal participles rkx>a& - T'&x>&) -^^-i^^^and S^^S&^^L. beating, respectively, make ^bg^&> &c. ~k13-*& & c . rfc-ifcT3^ifr &c. or ~^&> iy r& &c. / Sfc. beat ; but it will be seen, from the table, that the third person feminine or neuter in the singular, and the third person neuter in the plural, are not added to the participles in -v&r&^or e&Sx^, but only to those in *&> or e> : they have, therefore, only two forms ; viz. T&O^& or &bS$g&- -Sx>?5^jD or Sfc3frSS respectively ; for the conversion in the singular of <^ to o, in the common dialect, can hardly be reckoned a new form ; thus, ro tgj j &> tf^a or S^ko&^a she or it beats, {T^-tfctf^ja or r|&>S>^g> they beat. The participles in &> and -J^f5^ are both strictly grammatical, but those in e> and ^^^ are generally used in the common dialect. Of the four forms of the present tense derived from these participles, that only which is derived from the participle in ^f^. viz. -SfcTo^fc & c. j s strictly grammatical, the form derived from the grammatical participle in -&>, viz. "^rfo, i s vulgar, and it's use is confined chiefly to the religious bramins of the Northern districts : but the forms derived from the participles in &b and ^boO;^, viz. U'cS) an d &>72P^$) &c. are in common use, and should always be selected in preference to the other forms, when we speak the language.

PAST TENSE.

330 There is not any variation in the past verbal participle, from which the two forms of the past tense are derived; their formation, as shewn in, the table, is