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THE VERB IN GENERAL 119 III. Preterite. Singular. Plural. 1. yj's. - son [earlier '" sen], 2. -~ses. - sough, 3. - as. - sons or sans. Re prefixed to this tense turned it into a preterperfect in middle Cornish, but in the later form re is only used for the optative. 1 IV. The Pluperfect or Secondary Perfect, largely used in late Cornish as a Conditional. Singular. Plural. 1. -- sen (or jen). - sen (or jeri). 2. - ses (or jes) - seugh (or jeugfi). 3. -- sa (orj'a). - sens (or jens). V. The Subjunctive Present. Singular. Plural. 1. '^^ev. _'5_#. 2. --^--. -Jl 3. - o. - ens or ons. Extra tense to some verbs : Second Future. Found in the early MSS. in the impersonal form as a simple future. Singular. Plural. 1. - fym, vym, vyv. - -fan, von. 2. - -fyth, vyth. - faugh, vough. 3. - iv,Jyth, vyth, vo. - -fyns, vyns, vons. The Imperative. Singular. Plural. 1. wanting. en. 2. root alone. eugh. 3. - ens or es. -- ens. The Present Participle is formed by prefixing ow to the infinitive, the initial of which, if mutable in that 1 There is, however, some slight confusion in late Cornish MSS. between this use of re, and the auxiliary form with wrig. The difference of sound in cases of verbs beginning with g or c would be very slight.