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218 eat the Lightning: “Wrap up the dog !” = You w. + u. d. = mi fanombo nasu. — The status absolutus is asu. 153. It very often happens that verbs which are transitive in the Indo-European languages most familiar to us also take a direct object in IN. I have analysed from this point of view the Old Jav, tale which is embodied in Mpu Tanakung's Prosody, and the result is as follows. Many verbs take the accusative that also take it in German; but contrary to the German idiom are: “Helfen gegen Liebespein” (To be of help against the pangs of love) = atuluṅ rimaṅ; and “Den Vergnügen nachjagen” (To race after pleasures) = aṅrarah rüm. 154. All IN languages have verbs of motion which are construed with the accusative, particularly the verb "to go into". — Illustrations. Karo, from the Story of the Glutton : "They went into their house" = T. w. h. their = si dahi rumah na. Mal., from the Hang Tuah: “He went into the house” = masuq rumah. Amongst all the IN languages of which I have analysed texts of some length, Day. is the one that displays this phenomenon most frequently, and I have found it occurring oftenest in the two Sangumang Stories: 155. In many IN languages we find the phenomenon of a preposition, particularly the preposition i, coalescing with the verb. Such verbs in that case require no further linguistic means to link up the object, though per se it be an indirect one, or even the adverbial ; in other words, they are construed transitively. Example, Bug.: