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; Ame Peter

120 REPORT—1890.

CONDITIONAL.

The following forms were obtained from the Rev. Father Nicolai, the missionary
stationed at Alberni:
I should have I should have known, or

T should know. known. I intended to know.
1st person singular : kémétapo'sah. haimétapahitah. hamétapagatli'tah.
2nde aes Mi hamétaposé'its. &eC, &e.

Bid. 3, ai kamétaposma,

or kamétaposa.
Ist » plural kdmétapdsine. &e.

I have obtained none of these forms, but another instead; the form was obtained
in the foliowing sentence :
if I had been well I should have left, wékeaha’ mith ds waha'hitlith és
(waha'k, to leave).

By varying this sentence I obtained the following forms:

I should have gone, wahda'hitlith és.
thou wouldst have gone, wahd'hitlitsuh.
he would have gone, wahda'hitlitha.

we should have gone, waha' kitlithine.
you would have gone, waha'hitlitasuk.
they would have gone, wahdhitlhaatl.

The terminations of this form resemble those of the conditional in the Tlad’kath
dialect, which will be found further below.
SUPPOSITIONAL.

to kall, ka’gsap.
if I should kill. &e.

Futurum Ex-

= Present — Past Future | actum

1st pers. sing. | h-agsapk:d's kragsamitk'd's | kagsapak:tlh:o's kaqsapak tlith o's
2nd ,, - k:aqsapk:o'k
SEG ea eat, k:agsapk:o'
Ist ,, plur. | kagsapku'ne &C. &e. &C.
PUG sya ass k:aqsapk'o' so
SIRO eres aay k:agsapk:o' atl

The suppositional is also used as optative. It seems that in this case it takes a

terminal -e.

I wish I could eat=if I could eat, ha-w'kk-dc.
I wish thou couldst eat, ha-wkkoke. &c.

‘The same terminal e was found in a number of cases:
if he had been well I should have gone, wéheaha'mitk:de wohda kitlh és.

IMPERATIVE.

The imperative has a great variety of forms, and I was unable to classify them in
any satisfactory way. According to Bishop Lemmens, the subjunctive and impera-
tive are distinguished in the Tlao’kath dialect, and similar forms may occur in the
Ts’icia’ath.

The most frequent forms are on -?7 in the second person singular and -éte in the
second person plural.

eat ! (singular) ha’-ukni. drink ! (singular) nak-cii’.
eat! (plural) ha’-uknite. drink ! (plural) nak-ctite.

go away! k@'itc?; from hé’t. come here! tet hoa.