[Another alteration in the verb occurs in the 3d pers. sing, m. f. aorist. S"^ becomes GfiSo 'he saw' cone 'he bought'
becomes r'pas coniye. This form is only used in poetry.]
In Tenses ;—occasionally the present is used for the past: thus Parvati Kalyan. 2. 43. ftS-da^So offcab-j^^ 'To which, what replies he?'
In pronouns: thus ffi (Hunc me) KP. 3. 31. "This me."
Some poetical forms as trwepi are now vulgar: Thus in English 'To Ketch' is very vulgar and is used in Spenser 3. VI. 37. Thus in every language some vulgarisms are merely the antique forms.
Peculiar contractions are used in the verb : thus «£>S"3c!&3 for !fc»"eBiS + akao KP. 3. 18.
Several words drop the final vowel: particularly U. Thus S") becomes ?>S~, rm, re-, Ho^/sSeuo, ^[VsSnjr, esoHOoj*) tJoscfir-,
ON IMPERSONAL VERBS.
In Telugu as in other languages there are impersonal verbs: that is verbs which use only the third person singular : as it seems, it rains, it ought, it must, it should.
Examples : from "3ScJfc>t> to appear "3cx>(6j^ai. it seems U9#jSQ it appeared, it is evident, I know. Aorist. Ue"&>, or Uuo&fSi the same. These may often be governed, as usual, by a dative: thus T^aS'gaj^j^e it seems so to me, I am of opinion. ^"Stx)^^ you see it sr»o£°&"33bS>a2»fib they cannot see it. sSej&ij This verb originally meant To love, but as an impersonal denotes Must, should. &*s>'Sr& (Aorist) must go "O'^"amust come. The nominative may be any word, singular or plural. Thus "Ss&ooJr6^ E i& (we) must go &r>&d-s;S13p6 (you) must go. Past tense sSaSjSS thus ir*:5ej§i5a (you, we, he, it, &c.) must go. The aorist and the past are in English translated by the present equivalent to il fallait in French.
C. P. Brown's Telugu Grammar. L 1
