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58<br />
Present.<br />
Nega live.<br />
Singular.<br />
Plural.<br />
1 t)f b-pql^ro, (nnee wuilim)<br />
1 am not.<br />
wuil-muiddh) we are<br />
b-fu|lrt)u^&, (nnee-<br />
not.<br />
2 DJ b-u]lift, (nnee wuil-ir) Df b-pu^lcf, nnee wuilthou<br />
art not.<br />
tthee.) ye are not.<br />
3 1)1 b-f ujl r6, (hnee wuil t)f b-pujlib, (nnee-wuilshay)<br />
/te is not.<br />
iddh) tfAey are not.<br />
In ancient MSS. we find this form used in the affirmative,<br />
as j:u]l|tD, / am, &c., but never in the modern<br />
<strong>language</strong>.<br />
This is sometimes contracted in the analytic, as<br />
nfl nj&, I am not, t)j'l cv, Dj'l y&, &c., and in the<br />
synthetic, asDt'hn}, nflm, i)fl f^j &c. .<br />
Interrogative At) b-pu^l^rt) ? AT) b-jruiljjt ? A<br />
f& ? aw /.? &c. Sometimes the particle AD is omitted,<br />
as b-^u^liti) ? am 1 ? &c.<br />
Interrogative Affirmative DAC b-^u.]liri) ? am I<br />
not? &c.<br />
Relative DAC b-t:u^l, he who is not, &c.<br />
Consuetudinal Present<br />
Affirmative.<br />
Singular.<br />
\ bi6|ti), (bee-im) / am<br />
usually.<br />
2 bi6i]t, (bee-ir) thou art<br />
usually.<br />
3 bj8 r&, (bee shay) he is<br />
usually.<br />
Plural.<br />
, (bee-muiddh)<br />
we are usually.<br />
&qb, (bee-hee) ye are<br />
usually.<br />
bjb, (bee-iddh) they<br />
are usually*<br />
* This consuetudinal tense (which some writers<br />
make a separate mood,) is very much used, in all<br />
Verbs, to denote an usual or habitual state <strong>of</strong> acting<br />
or being Dr. Neilson.<br />
The Irish people, in speaking English, use these<br />
tenses, which they translate thus, from the Irish<br />
/ do be, I used to be, I do not be, &c.
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