Shakespear, John: A grammar of the Hindustani language (London, 1826)

HINDUSTANI LANGUAGE.

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Future Tnclefinite Tense.

Singular.

Plurah

I \shall,will,

we 1

VV y thou ) or may

l/jV Je

/ 9 1

UjjU ij he J go.

Jkh- s» tJmI

shalf will,
1 or may
go.

Imperative.

let me go.

9

U- y gO tllOU.

9

ojE % let him go.

let us go.

9

jV r5 g° lJe>

• ojU- ^ let them go.

Respectful and Precative forms of the Future and Imperative.

c

CPjtA'*-

you, sir, or your excellency, &c. may, shall
\ or will go; or, may you, sir, go; may
your excellency, &c. go.

we may, shall or will go ; or, may we go.

r ?

p thou mayest, shalt or wilt go; or, mayest
thou go.

\ sj he may, shall or will go ; or, may he go.

y ye may, shall or will go ; or, may ye go.

„ oj they may, shall or will go; or, may they go.

And for the feminine gender, the singular masculine
final T (d) of the infinitive, the participles, the auxiliaries
and the future, must be changed to f (i) in that number,

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