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Smith, Buckingham

"Shea's Library of American Linguistics. Volume III."


ANOTHER IMPERATIVE.
_Singular._
Nee eme hi?sguaco naqu?m, Nee eme hi?sguarico naqu?m.
I will that you write. I will that thou be written.
_Plural._
Nee em? hi?sguaco noquim, Nee ame hi?sguarico naqu?m,
I will that they write. I will that they be written.
OPTATIVE MOOD.
This mood appears to have been anciently used with c?ne, would that it
might be! but now in general it is not so understood. The phrase may
be deemed to be in the Optative, although it does not express that
entirely, being formed by the union of the Imperative above with
venesma, even though.
Ven?smane hi?sguam, Ven?smane hi?sguadauh,
I would that it might be, or, I would that it might be, or,
Even though I may write. Even though I may be written.
SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD.
This mode of speech, If I should write, I should have written, &c.,
the natives express by adding the particle _ru_ to the future.
_Singular._
Nee \ Nee \
Nap > ghi?suatzeru, Nap > hi?squatzidauhru
Id / If I should write, &c. Id / If I should be written, &c.


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