CONJUGATION.

(Stem Mi.) Affirmative Voice.

ILLATIVE FORMS. DESIDERATIVE FORMS. Oblique. Indicative.

Oblique.

Indicative.

Attributive mi(ru) - beka

have seen.

[Conditional............ mi(ru) - beke-as, or since [I, etc.]

reba

Sshould, etc., see.

S etc., see.

though [I, etc.]

(m)ba

mi(ru) - beke

redomo or mi(ru) - beshi to iedomo...

Con- mi(ru) - beku

Indefinite Form ......

mo

mi-taku

should, etc., see.

even if [I, etc.] should, etc., see.

[I, etc.] want to see.

[I, etc.] wanted to

see.

mi-takereba... as, since, or when S [I, etc.] want to see. if [I, etc.] want to

mi-taku(m)ba

mi-takeredo

mo

mi-tashi to ie

domo......

see.

though [I, etc.] want

to see.

} [I, etc.] have

seen, or had seen.

as, since, or when [I, etc.] saw, have seen, or had seen. though [I, etc.] saw, have seen, or had

seen.

I. The 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, conjugations include verbs of any number of syllables, as korosu, "to kill," 1st conjugation; aratamuru, "to rectify," 2nd conjugation; horoburu, "to perish," 3rd conjugation. The 4th conjugation consists of the following ten dissyllabic verbs only:--

N.B.-Kaerimiru, "to look back," "to consider," follows miru from which it is compounded. Kokoromuru (colloquial kokoromiru), "to test," though also derived from miru, follows the 3rd conjugation.

II. Japanese verbs have no infinitive properly so-called. The present tense and such expressions as yuku koto, “the act of going"; yukishi koto, "the act of having gone," supply its absence.

III. The use of the indefinite forms is explained on page 47. In the negative voice the gerund supplies the absence of an indefinite form.

IV. The fundamental distinction between the indicative and the oblique moods is that each tense of the indicative contains a conclusive form which is used to terminate sentences, and an attributive form which is used like an