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వికీసోర్స్ నుండి
ఈ పుట ఆమోదించబడ్డది

tense, because all the rest of the persons merely change the termination according to one rule.

There are properly only two voices : the affirmative and negative. The Passive voice is compounded with పడుట to fall: the Middle voice with కొనుట to take: and the Causal voice inserts ఇంచు incu. But all the terminations continue unchanged. Thus (as in English) the Passive uses the active endings.

The tenses of the verb are Present, Past, Future, Aorist and the Imperative.

The numbers are the Singular and the Plural; and the persons* are the first, second, and the third. In the Singular, the third person feminine has the neuter termination, but it takes masculine terminations in the plural.

Principal Parts Of The Verb.

These are the Boot, the Infinitives, and the Participles. The Boots end in ft}] "U" పంపు pampu, 'send,' పోవు povu, 'go;' to which by adding *J (the infinitive sign To) as పంపుట, పోవుట,the verbs to send, to go, are formed: as they appear in the Dictionary.

The Root (ధాతువు) has been differently defined by various writers. Some say that పంపుట pampu-ta is formed from పంపు pampu, adding ట ta. Others say (with the author of the Dipica) that the root is aboig) pampu. Others exhibit the verb as పంపడము pamp-adamu: but the oldest authors quote verbs in one form of the third person singluar past tense of the verb : పంపె pampe,


  • when we converse with a native who know Sancrit but not English we must remember that I, We, are called ఉత్తమపురుష; Thou, You, are called మధ్యమ పురుష; and He, she, it, they are called ప్రథమపురుష, the first person.