"Present tense" Quotes from Famous Books
... proceed to the second. Belle, I will now select for you to conjugate the prettiest verb in Armenian; not only of the second, but also of all the four conjugations; that verb is siriel. Here is the present tense:—siriem, siries, sire, siriemk, sirek, sirien. You observe that it runs on just in the same manner as hntal, save and except that e is substituted for a; and it will be as well to tell you that almost the only difference between the second, third, and ... — Isopel Berners - The History of certain doings in a Staffordshire Dingle, July, 1825 • George Borrow |