Having thus indicated the mode of distinguishing the person, number, relation, and gender--or what is deemed its technical equivalent, the mutation words undergo, not to mark the distinctions of _sex_, but the presence or absence of _vitality_, I shall now advert to the inflections which the pronouns take for _tense_, or rather, to form the auxiliary verbs, have, had, shall, will, may, &c. A very curious and important principle, and one, which clearly demonstrates that no part of speech has escaped the transforming genius of the language. Not only are the three great modifications of time accurately marked in the verbal forms of the Chippewas, but by the inflection of the pronoun they are enabled to indicate some of the oblique tenses, and thereby to conjugate their verbs with accuracy and precision. The particle _gee_ added to the first, second, and third persons singular of the present tense, changes them to the perfect past, rendering I, thou, He, I did--have--or had. Thou didst,--hast--or hadst, He, or she did--have, or had. If _gah_, be substituted for _gee_, the first future tense is formed, and the perfect past added to the first future, forms the conditional future. As the eye may prove an auxiliary in the comprehension of forms, which are not familiar, the following tabular arrangement of them, is presented. _First Person, I._ Nin gee, I did--have--had. Nin gah, I shall--will. Nin gah gee, I shall have--will have. _Second Person, Thou._ Ke gee, Thou didst--hast--hadst. Ke gah, Thou shalt--wilt. Ke gah gee, Thou shalt have--wilt have. _Third Person, He, or She._ O gee, He or she did--has--had. O gah, He or she did--has--had. O gah gee, He or she shall have--will have. The present and imperfect tense of the potential mood, is formed by _dau_, and the perfect by _gee_, suffixed as in other instances. _First Person, I._ Nin dau, I may--can, &c. Nin dau gee, I may have--can have, &c. _Second Person, Thou._ Ke dau, Thou mayst--canst, &c. Ke dau gee, Thou mayst have--canst have, &c. _Third Person, He, or She._ O dau, He or she may--can, &c. O dau gee, He or she may have--can have, &c. In conjugating the verbs through the plural persons, the singular terms for the pronoun remain, and they are rendered plural by a retrospective action of the pronominal inflections of the verb. In this manner the pronoun-verb auxiliary, has a general application, and the necessity of double forms is avoided. The preceding observations are confined to the formative or _prefixed_ pronouns. The inseparable suffixed or subformative are as follows--