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grammar it is classed among the affixes. But although in this way
certainly having the nature of a noun, it may be inflected like a
verb in the indicative, as f. i. ajortoq one who is bad, ajortunga I who
am bad, ajortutit thou who art bad etc. It is called the nominal
participle, whereas that above is the verbal participle.

The use of the table however still requires some explanation.
The endings represented in it are called the formative additions,
Kleinschmidt shows us in a very ingenious way how they are
developed out of 4 elements: the character, the sign of mood, the sign of
person and the sign of suffix. Only the first of these elements needs to
be more closely mentioned here. It is wanting for the optative and
the infinitive, for which the sign of mood is joined immediately to the
stem; for the others there are 2 kinds, the principal character used
for the independent moods, indicative and interrogative, and the
connecting character for the dependent moods. With the addition of
these characters the endings of the stem will be:

Verbal stems of:				chief char.:	connecting char.:
1	class ending	in	q.......	rp.......	r
2	— —	-	k.......	gp.......	′k
3	— —	-	t.......	′ p.......	′k (′n)
4	— —	-	-.......	-v.......	-g
5	— —	-	é.......	á.......	ig

To one of these 3 kinds of forms, the stem by itself (optative
and infin.), the stem with the chief char. (indie. and interr.), and the
stem with the connecting char. (conj., subj. and. participle), the
endings given in the table have to be added.

The following examples may serve to explain the use of the
table: atorpoq it is used, atorpâ he uses or has used it, atorpiuk dost
thou use it?, atorpago if or when he uses it, atorâ he who uses it,
atormat as it had been used; nâlagpoq he obeys, nâlagparma thou
obeyst me, nâlangmatigik as they had obeyed them, nâlákuvsinga if ye
obey me; tilrípoq he comes or has come, tikile may he come!,
tikitdlune he coming: takuvâ he sees or saw him, takugangma as thou
sawst me, takugpanga when he sees me, takugivnigut ye who see or
saw us; oqarfiyâ he says to him, tikíkame oqarfigânga as he had
arrived, he said to me, tikingmat oqarjigânga as he had arrived, he
— i. e. another one — said to me.

Of the optative and the conjunctive some peculiar forms exist
which are rather frequently used.

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