to be. Thus: 32 cheppa-mi, the not saying, or పోవడము cheppaka povadamu, or చెప్పకవుండడము cheppaka undadamu, the going or being without saying.

SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD.

100. The subjunctive mood is formed by adding to the past participle, the affixes & té or 53 naṭṭaité. Thus: చెప్పి తే cheppi-té or cheppi-naṭṭaité, if I say.

101. Other English tenses and moods, both in the affirmative and the negative, are formed by the use of the auxiliary verbs, and it will be convenient to state them in detail after the auxiliary verbs have been described.

(c.) CONTRACTED FORM OF VERBS.

102. Several pure Telugu verbs, such as the very common verbs, konu, to take, to buy, 25 vinu, to hear, tinu, to eat, use short and easy contractions in the regular tenses. They contract the nutsu of the present

into ontsu, and the

nutu into oe

nțu, changing the

soft palatal t into the hard cerebral ț. The principal forms

koni, having bought,

Formed from the past participle

with the addition of nnánu, &c., contracted from

VERBS WITH OTHER TERMINATIONS.

104. It was stated at the beginning of the section relating to the verbs that the variations in their formation were so few and so simple that there was practically only* one conjugation in Telugu. Besides the class already described, there are groups of verbs ending in x yu and intsu; but the mode in which the tenses are formed is the same as that employed in the other verbs, that is, by affixing fragments of the personal pronouns ; but they differ from the other verbs in the variations of the root itself, generally in the direction of euphony, and of clearness and simplicity of speech. Examples of both groups will now be given..

105. In most of the changes made when adding the pronominal affix, the root of verbs in yu generally