eme deosaritzem, I judge you happy; deosari meaning happy; nee eme náventzem, I consider you poor—pity you; náven meaning poor: and they form the perfect, tziui, and future tziúhtze.
CONVERSIVE VERB.
27. When a thing changes so as to pass from one to another form or quality, this verb is used. Earth, tevat; genitive, teuhte; accusative, teuhta, whence comes the verb teúhtuun, I make me earth,—as do the sticks become, and bodies that rot. So dóhmetum, make man, explains the mystery of the incarnation, as, God the Son made himself man for us, Dios noquát tamóde, or tamo, betzeguai dóhmetui. So batuum, is made water, bat, water; nasórtaan, I throw away; nasórtuun, is thrown away, to become corruption; of which the perfect is tui, the future, tutze.
28. There are some Compound Verbs which end in donon, signifying to go to do something, which appear to be formed from the future, omitting the last syllable tze, and substituting donon, as amúdonon, I go to hunt; amún being, I hunt; the future amútze ; cumándonon, I go to gather wood, from cumánan, I gather wood, future cumantze; baudónon, I go to bring water, formed of bat, water; vun, the future of vtze, bring, and donon, which has the perfect doni, and future dontze.
29. The termination guan, is usually a sign of the Active Verb, as in mótzguan, I begin: máguan, or máhuan, I plough, and is added by the natives to some Spanish words they use, such are perdonároguan, I pardon; ayunároguan, I fast; velároguan, I watch. Some form the perfect in guari, and future in guatze; others the perfect in uhri, and future in úhtze, úitze, or in guatze.
30. To form Compound Neuter Verbs, the verb dáan, I go, is frequently used, as bahútunan, I melt (active); bahútudaan, I melt, or am melting, the neuter, barínan, I soften; baricdaan, I go on to soften; zicónan, I break; zicócdaan, I break (neuter); the perfect being dai, the future, détze.
31. Other Neuters are formed of active verbs ending in an by changing it into en, as sebán, I freeze; seben, freeze; basán, I ripen; basen, ripen; sepán, cool; sepen, cool; nacuan, hurt; nacuen, hurt. To form the perfect, the en is changed into i; but the future, although it always ends in tze, differs, as will appear by the vocabulary.
32. In the same manner as of Active Verbs in an, Neuter Verbs in en are made, so from other actives in an, neuters are made in un, as, busán, I awake another; busún, I awake me; tutzan, I quench; tucún, I quench me, in the perfect changing the un to i, and the future to tze.
PLURAL OF VERBS.
33. This language has the notable peculiarity of the verbs oftentimes differing greatly in the plural from the singular, as, vaquén, enter one; múume, enter many; vóon, one to lay down; medáguame, lay down many; méran, one to run; vóome, many to run; batémucun, to drown oneself; betécoome, many to drown themselves; batemean, drown one; batecódan, drown many.