NOTE.—Instead of the prefix ig or i, in the instrumental passive, the affix an is frequently employed. As
¿diín susuratán? for ¿diín isusurát? etc.
Cacan-o san-o
“Cacan-o” is placed before the past indicative; “san-o” is used before the future, indicative. They are the only two tenses of this kind of conjugation. As to the inflections in the primitive form, the past is simply the root, and the future is the root, whose first two letters are doubled. As
| ¿cacan-o camo surat? | (when did you write?) |
| ¿san-o ca cácanhi? | (when will you come?) |
In the progressive form the root takes the prefixes pag for the singular and pa, pan, pang in plural.
In the passive, the affix a is used in the direct passive; the affix i, in the indirect passive; and the prefix i or ig in the instrumental. These prefixes are frequently replaced by the affix an. Examples:
| ¿cacan-o surata? |
| ¿Ban-o susuratí? etc |
IMPORTANT OBSERVATION. The verb referred to by any adverb of time takes the same form, as to the indicative, as the adverbs cacan-o and san-o. As
| buás acó cacanhi | (tomorrow I shall come) |
| canina han ága acó pagsurát | (this morning I have written)[91] |