_The Infinitive_ The present infinitive is formed by adding _coto_ or _to_ to the present indicative; e.g., _aguru coto_ or _aguru to_ 'to offer.' The preterit infinitive is formed by adding the same particles to the preterit indicative; e.g., _agueta coto_ or _agueta to_ 'to have offered.' The future infinitive is formed by adding the same particles to the future indicative; e.g., _agueô coto_ or _agueô to_ 'to be about to offer.' The same meaning is obtained by adding _ióni_ to the present, preterit, or future indicative; e.g., _nai nai guioi ni caqerareô ióni va vare mo zonzuru fitobito mo zonjita_ (22v) 'I think and others believed me to have been favored by you with many benefits,' _qeccu vare ni voxiie marasuru ióni gozaru_ (117v) 'he is truly able to teach me,' _agueta ióni gozaru_ 'he is said to have offered it.' To ask or answer a question the infinitive is often subordinate to the verb which follows; e.g., _nhóbógata ni vochita coto ga atta ca?_ 'did you fall into the sin of adultery with this woman? is this what happened?' etc. All the tenses of the infinitive are used in the same way. Sometimes the preterit infinitive is replaced by the pluperfect with _gozaru_ or _aru_ removed; e.g., _Deus no minori vo firomete iocaró_ 'it is good to spread the Gospel.' Sometimes the present or preterit indicative plus _ga_ replaces the present or preterit of the infinitive; e.g., _sore vo vôxeraruru ga varú gozaró_ 'it will be bad to say that,' _maitta ga maxi gia_ (21) 'it is better to have come, or it was better to come.' When the substantive verb follows the infinitive, the particle _coto_ is not required; e.g., _cosacazzuqi de va saqe vo nomu devanai_ (23) 'to drink sake from a small glass is not to drink sake,' _core coso caqu de gozare_ 'this we are able to say, or better, write,' _caqu de gozatte coso_ 'this is not the way for it to be written,' _sore va aguru devanai_ 'that is not to offer it.' Some of these examples are taken from other (25 conjugations but the general rule applies to all. The idea of the {130} infinitive is also obtained by the following means of expression; _ague va_, _aguredomo_ 'although I offered, or even if I made it so that it was offered.' Because this is a general rule for all the conjugations, they also say _qiqi va tçucamatçure domo gatten xenu_ 'although I have listened, or done everything necessary to hear; I still don't understand.' They also say _aguru vo motte_ 'by offering, or with the fact that he is to offer,' _aguru iori_ 'from the fact that he is to offer,' _aguru nitçuite_ 'about the fact that he is to offer.'