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

HINDUSTANI LANGUAGE.

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^ ,j> \L£ & neither colcl nor liot pleases;

p ij y

I am opening or I am about to open ;

uUb JT I am about to malce manijest my Jormer
state before tJiee.

77. The adverbs of negation or <0 maj be used

either before, or afteu verbs : however is peculiar to

imperatives, or to infinitives adopted for tliem ; may be
applied to any rnood, but in prose it rarely can be post-
poned to the verb ; wrhilst though incapable of being
joined to an imperative, is yet more emphatical and in
more general use than aj with the other parts of a verb ;

o ? 9

so, c^= do not ask ; prciy do not forget; aj

9 9

clo not suppose ; Jp U. \J> aj U place not tJiy
affections any wJiere ; wJiat Jiast tJiou not Jieard ? When the
emphatick moreover, is adopted, it frequently with
elegance supplants the present of the verb at the end

j- c 9

or a sentence: as, Jib ff acts of cruelty

(are) not becoming tJiy dignity : and, in a compound sen-
tence, the negative adverb may sometimes be understood
in the first member and expressed conjunctively in the

o

second part only ; so Mir Taki says, 'iJ \J jt

fp aj m tJie mosque, 0 sJiaikJi! is tJiere (neitJier) a cup nor
a morsel?

78. The conjunctions J and ^ tJiat, are adopted at