PARTICIPLE.
42. The verbs become participles without undergoing change of form, as, hiósguam, I write, or he that writes, is the present participle; hiósguari, I have written, or he that has written; hiósguatze, I will write, or he that will, is the preterite (future?) participle. The same in its proportion is to be understood of the passive voice.
The Present Participle is of the second declension, forming the genitive in te, thus Nominative, hiósguan; Genitive, hiósgnante, etc. The imperfect participle is of the same declension, with the difference that the mark of the imperfect, ru, is the final, as, Nom. hiósguamru, Gen. hiósguamteru, etc.
The Perfect Participle is of the first declension, having its genitive in que, as, Nom. hiósguari, Gen. hiósguarique.
Pluperfect Participle is declined like the perfect, observing what has been said of the imperfect, as, Nom. hiósguariru, Gen. hiósguariqueru, etc.
The Future Participle belongs to the second declension, the genitive ending in te, preceded by n or m, as, Nom. hiósguatze, Gen. hiósguatzente.
The plural, it appears, should be declined in the same manner as the singular in respect of its termination in te or que.
PREPOSITION.
43. The prepositions that govern the genitive might with reason be called post-positions, since they follow the case; for Pedro Pedroque betzégnai, with you amó ma.