A Grammar of the Pukkhto Or Pukshto Language: On a New and Improved System, Combining Brevity with Practical Utility, and Including Exercises and Dialogues, Intended to Facilitate the Acquisition of the Colloquial |
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according active adding adjectives AORIST auxiliary bāndi become biyā consonant darta declension denoting derived dzamā Examples feminine gender give haghah haghe hagho hets IMPERFECT INDICATIVE MOOD infinitive inflection intransitive kala khabar khpul kkhah kkhke language letter masculine MOOD move nominative nouns objects oblique PARTICIPLE particle PAST TENSE PERFECT Persian personal pronouns PLURAL pore preceding PRESENT TENSE Pukkhto road RULE sara sarai shah sham short vowel shta SINGULAR sometimes sound stā strike struck tasa terminal thou transitive verbs tsok verbs wahali wale woman wu ba به په تاسو ته دي شوي شي کړي که نه هغه هغو وه وهل وهلي وي يم
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Page 63 - The passive voice is formed by conjugating the past participle with the several tenses of the auxiliaries J j^ kedal and J^i shwal.
Page 126 - Call out to him to stand, and if he does not stop I will take a shot at him.
Page x - Indo-Persian form at some remote period, by the sudden and long-continued contact of Indian tribes with the Persians, from whose language, owing to their preponderating influence, a large number of words came to be used colloquially. And in time, these, without affecting its original grammatical construction, themselves became absorbed...
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| Title | A Grammar of the Pukkhto Or Pukshto Language: On a New and Improved System, Combining Brevity with Practical Utility, and Including Exercises and Dialogues, Intended to Facilitate the Acquisition of the Colloquial |
| Author | Henry Walter Bellew |
| Publisher | W.H. Allen & Company, 1867 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | Apr 1, 2008 |
| Length | 155 pages |
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