Vtze is
the future of vun, I bring; nert?tze, I pray, the future of n?rtaan:
ouictze the future of ouican, I call; so that the tze is taken from
the future, and ne?quen is placed in its stead. Notice, likewise, this
method: Nap ca istut?ndauh, It is commanded not to lie.
So far of the verbs, which as well other parts of speech all the
Indians use with nicety and elegance. For their conjugation, a
single exemplar has been given; but their perfects and futures being
differently formed, which are the roots whence the other tenses
spring, they have been placed in the vocabulary added to the verbs, a
knowledge of which will suffice to form all the other times.
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PARTICIPLE.
42. The verbs become participles without undergoing change of form,
as, hi?sguam, I write, or he that writes, is the present participle;
hi?sguari, I have written, or he that has written; hi?sguatze, I will
write, or he that will, is the preterite (future?) participle. The
same in its proportion is to be understood of the passive voice.
The _Present Participle_ is of the second declension, forming the
genitive in te, thus Nominative, hi?sguan; Genitive, hi?sgnante,
etc. The imperfect participle is of the same declension, with the
difference that the mark of the imperfect, ru, is the final, as, Nom.
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