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 66 AN AUSTRALIAN LANGUAGE.

EXAMPLES of THE DECLENSION of VERBS and PnONOUNS.

��1. The Verb.

��Dara, 'to eat.'

��The Tense numbers here ai'e the same as on page 26 of this volume.

Inbicatiye Mood.

1. Dara 6. Deinni

2. De 7. Dal^iiTi

3. Dalgurranui 8. AVari dalgarriawagirri

4. 9. Dalgarrigirri

5. Dalguaan 10. {Fut.-Ferf.) Degirri

Impeeatite Mood.

Singular.

Dalla, ' eat thou ' Dallidyu, ' let me eat '

Dallaguiu barri, ' let him eat.'

Dual.

Gullallgunnanna barri dalla, or ngaguala dalla barri, or gula- ngalligunna dalli, ' let him and me eat together.'

Grula barri dalla bulagu, or dalla guain bulagu barri, ' let them two eat together.'

]N"gallibul dalla, or iigindu bula dalla, ' you two eat.'

Plural.

Dalla ngeauni, 'let us eat.' jSTgindugir dalla, ' eat you.'

Dalla guaiugulia barri, ' let them eat.' Grulagalanguudugir dalla, ' let me and many eat together.'

Subjunctive and Potential Moods.

These moods are frequently expressed by the future tense with yandundu, 'if,' 'when,' added; by the auxiliary verb garra, and especially by the word mallaug ; see page 01 of this appendix.

Paeticiples.

These are declined like verbs in all the tenses and moods. There are two participles ; the one ends in -bianna, and the other in -g unnann a ; the former seems to imply a longer con- tinuance of time than the other.

Indicative.

1. Dalgunnana {or dalbianna), 'I am eating.'

2. Dalgunnani, ' I was eating.'

5. Dalguain, ' I have been eating.'

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