The signs of the persons of the verbs are -in, -is, -i; -am -ut`, -inc`; e. g.
| qus-in=aud-io | qus-am=aud-imus |
| qus-is=aud-is | qus-ut`=aud-itis |
| qus-i=aud-it | qus-inc`=aud-iunt. |
The addition of the sound of t helps to form the Irôn preterite. I say helps, because if we compare the form s-ko-t-on=I made, with the root kan, or the form fé-qus-t-on=I heard, with the root qus, we see, at once, that the addition of t is only a part of an inflection.
Beyond this, the tenses become complicated; and that because they are evidently formed by the agglutination of separate words; the so-called imperfect being undoubtedly formed by affixing the preterite form of the word to make. The perfect and future seem to be similarly formed, dele from the auxiliary=be; as may be collected from the following paradigms.
1.
| Plural—Present, | st-am, st-ut, i-st-i=sumus, estis, sunt. |
| Singular—Preterite, | u-t-an, u-t-as, u-d-i=fui, fuisti, fuit. |
| Singular—Future, | u-gín-an, u-gín-as, u-gén-i=ero, eris, erit. |
| Imperative | fau=esto. |
2.
Root, k`an=make.
Preterite,=s-k`o-t-on,[10] s-k`o-t-ai, s-k`o-t-a=feci, fecisti, fecit.