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 Jaktailt, I875.J SKETCH OP &ABJ3AN tiUAMUAK. subordinate uncompleted state. It may even bo said that a relation analogous to that between n noon and an adjective exists between the Perfect fltirni the IwperJect. Hence it follows that in the conjugation, fclao Perfect, being considered a* a kind of Vijrlkil noun, precedes tbo tcrjnlnutiom* of bho euhjoot; wliiL»L on Ibv contrary the Im- perfect, ninrkii^ in ut |«t in need of a sub- jeol, is plue«d after it, so that ibt personal pronouns ure placed at the head of the com- plex. Th« modifications to which the vowels attach- ed to the radical letters of the verb -were subjected in order to indicate the Subjunctive Mood can- not of course be aAcertaincd, bur tWf could not be different from thn method ado].' inguagc, tt»Ui which the Subasan con- jugation 1ms several features in common, Among- tbt terminations of the moorS*. the tarmii iWftih : is of grflftt interest. The first inter- proton of •Subu.'au texts observed that the Imperfect often shows a at the end of the word, like the Kmphatic Arabic I m perfe c t. This a is considorc-d ujftnifaaj v, ah the Hebrew particle hj "no v. . i" 'i i d n btol would servo to emphasize the idea of an not jet waiting for com- ajbttl tki, ^v, ,!.,:;,, r lMl i i l, i'. m,.! well agree with the liiet that I personal sufllxvi in the put,- lienl forms : t the pa Rp9, 773, and even sometimes be. fore the powH&wve suffixes alt ached to the Perfect' Gs tender meant to surmount this difficulty by supposing that the « littd in Hebrew an origin different from the Arabic «, whilst on the other baud he declared t rt of the Per dtie only to a false uunk'!fy with the luipcr- I it snob a system of explanation, in- crvusea the difficulties instead of solving rh> in, and it receives the uun)t formal dcuiul by the "i.'il l rj Sabnwn thn n is added on the Ferfool Thaw two moods may to called OonaecntiT< P . imper- feet, Iweauso limy are almost always sub- ordinate to the absolute verb and preceded by iS * BxampJeji of toe Conae- Itnp-.-ri -cakt mm rrrr* {Ff, JJo. lf. -I, o) ; the Plural shows r* twice, ;r5"», ^ (Ox. ixv. o, *j), ptvnn -*xv («'&■ m ') • U»i» prolonged form occurs ulso after nth or particles: — ppp (Oil. x. HJ.hp* («*- *0, Tv( ib * ' ««w (i&. mil. 5), rcr (fl xvii. 11). For the Per- foot a single a occurs in the Plural : re*™ «n { If- $ t 2-3; 10, 1-2 j 10, 2-3) ; in the Dttat, pr^-e -,; (ff. 43, 2}, rAn p?^ -rrfr (0«. JW. I) ; for the Sing-nlar Jlale'vy give* throe examples; on" in uiaecubm par* ^a (0. 10% 2), and two in the feminine, p*s* rrfnn (£f. 631, 2; ftS2.il), pnrrn nncft (£f. ' whnuMi it may bo seen that the feminine r> disappears before this termi- nation. present bo I lale'vy cons ul v re it more probable that in the r wo hub examples the #ceond I C r 1 1 1 j in the Imperfect, analegons to the formula — pw*, riOTj, which in so frequent in thr» mscrip* tinna of Amrin, From this it may be ©OH- I thai thf ■ QOQBtitttfiej &o important an "i- the vra-li thai H to dnnhlr-d bn lnir«rfeot Phrral. Tho pj-eposltion H «8 olttt) ftddod h) the Im- perfect in order to impart to it 1 . nil'iH to the simpi' m) t ircv^Hr (Otl. xsxv. I), and even tc the Perfect in these two forms : unto (0# - '■ >>, 7 fH, Bfcf* - I ik ELC), rrvi ta {IT. HO, 11), k&, *J) : the forms arc perhaps tnfini* tives, lluMvy also diseovercd the preposition a prefixed to the Imperfect bqn { -. 7), a form very conmon in vuJgw Arabic, and in the Kthiopic dialects. The Sahapnn verb Itas two gwul. . 1 1.-- mas- > and the Gsmini oaosiberfl) the ii'- Lite dual, and the plural. Thure is no doubt about the existence of ths dual, which was hrat finspeeted by Kresnel,. and aO^rwanls doaisd liy Osiander. WJt. . subjects lire i of which in the murk of the plural— (^ vrftm msr«) : -iot (fXi. WIT. I), ■mrct (■w^i'wro) t/V. Nn riv. 2i. -:: (B dual is formed by tw as shown by the ax- ample (rsoei) f«tJ (Q*. XXX.1T. 4). The tenni- uationB ti are the organic) forms of the V «lual l _,G ur«| seem to hare been pnmuuuocd UsappoAi luiijfuaj^ea. and nmuuj,' thetn in Ethiopie, Halcvy has found no ssairtp the dual of the Immtrfnct, hot, to judgs from the anslogy of the Perfect, it ought also to have As ibe texts an all composed in the third
 * inp- r it is moreover often used in
 * d e/f, rtiiiiuttion • instead