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174-175] INTENSIVES 205B. The forms of the secondary type, which is indistinguishablefrom a passive in form, number only abouta dozen. They occur only in the 2. 3. s. and 3. pi. ind. pres.,besides a few participles. They are :Pres. ind. sing. 2. co-sku-ya-se (sku tear).3. dedisya-te,ne-ni-ya-te, marmrj-ya-te, rerih-ya-te, vevij-yate,vevi-yate (vi enjoij). PI. 3. tartur-yante (Vtv), marmrjyante.Part, earcur-ya-mana (\/car),neni-ya-mana, marmrjya-mana.IV.Denominatives.175. These verbs, inflected like those of the a conjugation(132), are derived, almost exclusively with the suffix ya,from nouns, to which they express some such relation as' '*be or act like ',treat as ',turn into ',or ' *use as ', wish for '.More than a hundred denominative stems occur in the RV.and about fifty in the AV.^ The suftix is normally accented,but a certain number of undoubted denominatives, such asmantra-ya utter a prayer, artha-ya make an object of, desire,have the causative accent, thus forming a connecting linkbetween the regular denominatives and the causatives.A. Before the suffix ya :1. final i - and u are lengthened ; ^e. g. kavi-ya he tvise(kavi), rayi-ya desire wealth (rayi) ; rju-ya he straight(rju) ; vasu-ya desire wealth (vasu) ; satru-ya play theenemy (satru), he hostile.2. final a usually remains unchanged, but is often lengthened; it is sometimes changed to i ;and even dropped ;1Denominatives are less common in B. ;thus the AB. has hardlytwenty, and the SB. about a dozen.*Except arati-yS ud like an enennj, he hostile beside arati-yd, andjani-ya seek a wife beside jani-ya ; gatu-ya set in motion (gatu).is usually, the u is always, written short.3In the Pada text the i