A grammar and dictionary of the Malay language : with a preliminary ...

5U A GRAMMAR OF THE MALAY LANGUAGE.
laluh jatuh ddriat^s gajahna, lalu mati; IMisa Tandraman
retaliated, and king Purbaya hit in the flank, fell from his
elephant and died. INIaka mantri itu kalah, ulih ulnbalang,
lalu main; the councillor defeated by the warrior was ashamed.
Two of these auxiliaries are often combined, when they consti-
tute a perfect preterite. Adapun taman itu yang patek barbuAvat
akan parsambah itu, talah sudah patek barbuwat ; the garden
which your servant was making for an offering, your servant
has made. Satiilah sudah abis ditilikna, maka ditulisna
when they had spied, they wrote down.
Future time is expressed by the verbs man, literally, to will,
and andak, to desire or intend, and sometimes by the preposition
ak&n. Aku mau pargi kadesa; I will go to the countiy. lya
mau barlayar esuk ; he will sail to-morrow. Aku andak bli
timah dan sisik-panu, akan tukar dangan mas urai; I will buy
tin and tortoiseshell to exchange for gold-dust. Maka tatkala
tuwanku masuk kapada paduka ad-anda, maka mau iya turun
d^riatas patranana; when my lord goes in to her highness, your
younger sister (the queen), she will descend from her chair of
state. Maka kata p&rmaisuri pada ad-andana, santaplah, tuwanku,
barsama-sama kita, maka iya tiyada mau ; the queen said to her
younger sister, eat, my mistress, along Avith me, but she would
not. Jikalau ada kurniya tuwanku, patek akan mamreksakan
diya; by my lord's grace, his servant will enquire into it.
Maka kata sagala dayang-dayang, marilah kita bartaruh ; siyapa
alah, ambil subangna. Satalah itu, maka kata anak d'ara-
d-ara itu, putri Nila Kandi akan manang; the hand-maids
said among themselves, come let us wager, whoever loses, let
her ear-rings be taken ; and the maidens said, the princess Nila
K&ndi will win. Tiyada akan lama tuwanku disini ; my mistress
will not be long here. Maka kata iya, wahe ! ayanda kamana
aku akan pargi ; she said alas !
father,
whither shall I go ?
An interrogative sense is given by the inseparable suffix
kah, applied either to the verb itself, or to any other woi'd
in the same sentence with it. Lihatlah ^mbakah alah ulihna,
atawah iyalah alah ulili amba ; see, whether am I conquered by
him, or he conquered by me.
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