| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| ngi- | ya- | ku- | tanda, | I | go | to | love, | I shall love.[20] |
The future would afterwards assume the character of a civil command, as “thou wilt go” may be used even by us in the sense of “go;” and the imperative would dwindle away into a potential, as we may say: “Go and you will see,” in the same sense as, If you go, you will see.
The terminations of the future are:—
Sanskrit:—
| syâmi, | syasi, | syati, | syâmas, | syâtha, | syanti. |
Greek:—
| σω, | σεις, | σει, | σομεν, | σετε, | σοντι. |
Latin:—
| ero, | erĭs, | erĭt, | erĭmus, | erĭtis, | erunt. |
In these terminations we have really two auxiliary verbs, the verb as, to be, and ya, to go, and by adding them to any given root, as, for instance, DA, to give, we have the Sanskrit (dâ-as-yâ-mi):—