PLURAL OF VERBS.

33. This language has the notable peculiarity of the verbs oftentimes

differing greatly in the plural from the singular, as, vaquén, enter

one; múume, enter many; vóon, one to lay down; medáguame, lay down

many; méran, one to run; vóome, many to run; batémucun, to drown

oneself; betécoome, many to drown themselves; batemean, drown one;

batecódan, drown many.

34. There are many _Compound Active Verbs_ ending in puguan or puuan,

which signify to pluck, as beguát, skin, genitive; beúhte, accusative;

beúhta, whence beuhpuuan, tear off the skin is formed, and from mo,

hair of the human head comes mópuuan, pluck the hair, etc.; sequát,

flower, genitive, seúhte; accusative, seúhta gives seúhpuuan, to

pluck flowers; nágua; root, genitive, naúhte; accusative, naúhta, when

naúhpuuan, eradicate, is formed, their perfect being in uhri, their

future in natze.

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