The terminations are the three pronouns, feminine and masculine, singular and plural, each represented by one of twelve vowel characters, and declined like nouns. When a nominative immediately follows the verb, the pronominal suffix is generally dropped, unless required by euphony. Thus, "a man strikes" is _dak klaftas_, but in the past tense, _dakny klaftas_, the verb without the suffix being unpronounceable. The past tense is formed by the insertion of _n_ (_avnâ_: "I have been"), the future by _m_: _avmâ_. The imperative, _avsâ_; which in the first person is used to convey determination or resolve; _avsâ_, spoken in a peremptory tone, meaning "I _will_ be," while _avso_, according to the intonation, means "be" or "thou shalt be;" i.e., shalt whether or no. _R_ forms the conditional, _avrâ_, and _ren_ the conditional past, _avrenâ_, "I should have been." The need for a passive voice is avoided by the simple method of putting the pronoun in the accusative; thus, _dâcâ_ signifies "I strike," _dâcal_ (me strike) "I am struck." The infinitive is _avi; avyta_, "being;" _avnyta_, "having been;" _avmyta_, "about to be." These are declined like nouns, of which latter there are six forms, the masculine in _â, o, and y,_ the feminine in _a, oo, and e;_ the plurals being formed exactly as in the pronominal suffixes of the verb. The root-word, without inflexion, alone is used where the name is employed in no connection with a verb, where in every terrestrial language the nominative would be employed. Thus, my guide had named the squirrel-monkeys _ambau_ (sing. _ambâ_); but the word is declined as follows:— _Singular._ _Plural._ _Nominative_ ambâs ambaus _Accusative_ ambâl ambaul _Dative, to_ or _in_ ambân ambaun _Ablative, by_ or _from_ ambâm ambaum The five other forms are declined in the same manner, the vowel of the last syllable only differing. Adjectives are declined like nouns, but have no comparative or superlative degree; the former being expressed by prefixing the intensitive syllable _ca_, the latter, when used (which is but seldom) by the prefix _ela_, signifying _the_ in an emphatic sense, as his Grace of Wellington is in England called _The_ Duke _par excellence_. Prepositions and adverbs end in _t_ or _d_.