Grammar of the Amharic language

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1842 Excerpt: ...with Nouns, as Adjectives; by the treatment they experience from other Transitive Verbs, when being put into the Accusative Case; and by the influence they themselves exercise on Nouns and Pronouns. As this subject, however, belongs more properly to the Syntax, we shall leave it for the present. Before we leave this subject, we beg to present to the Student those regular deviations which take place in those verbs whose third radical letter is liable to change, by the accession of the vowels i and e, according to the rule laid down Part I. Ch. VII. c. This occurs in verbs ending in A: Ills ft: 1": 1: H: Rs ID: R: and 0:, with (1) the Feminine of the 2d pers. masc. in (a) the Present Indicative; (6) the Contingent Simple and Compound; (c) Subjunctive; (d) Imperative; (2) with the 1st pers. sing, in the Constructive Simple and its Compounds. Instances: antEf: I pounding &c (Dim.: mOR.AU' = I am (was) pounding.. (DITJPAU" 8. 1UIR: "he reproved," "chastised." Ul£0: "he proceeded.1 changes are the same as in No. 7. The B. SECOND CONJUGATION, whose characteristic is a prolongation of the first radical, by which it is changed from the first into the fourth form. Its force is intensity of the idea of the original form. TiKfl: he scolded exceedingly. Its difference in form, from the First Conjugation, is as follows: 1. It retains the first long radical throughout; on this acccount, it 2. Has no peculiar form for the Subjunctive, but is served by the Contingent Mood. 3. In the Imperative, the first radical is long, of the fourth: the second short, of the sixth order. '4. In the Infinitive, the first radical is of the fourth; the second, as in all the conjugations, of the first order. The mode of conjugating being the same as...