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ICANOHU VERB. 385 not go, gv/nurakooni ; I shall not go, ffunurakoanggi ; I will not go, gwnurakoo; cannot or must not go, gumicki cjordkoo; n^ay go* gv/nucki qjoronggi; to go, gv/numM; cause to go, gwaubooTnhi ; there are some gone, gvmv/nimggi hi; there are some who will not go, gv/av/rako(mggi hi. There is no hindrance to your going-— gunuchi qjordkoonggi akoo if-go may-not Qii) not There is no place whither you may go — gv/rmchi qjoroo hi aJcoo if-go may is not Better not go than go— gurmsfub angola gv/aurakoo dua yidrakoo can-go rather go-not equal-to-not Has gone, but if so, better not have gone — gunufi hono oottoo had/vu gv/aurakoo bu gone moreover thus beyond go-not ai hadooni pity better-not The dua an4 bu of the last two sentences are expletives, marking emphasis aud tima These examples, which do not exhaust the changes rung on the Manchu verb, are sufficient to show a wide gulf between Manchu and Corean, — ^Manchu verbal modifications being much more numerous, more like Turkish. Though too much space is already occupied with examples, one or two more will show that Manchu changes the verbal suffix where CSorean would introduce a second verb: — hahshan, is a lawsuit; kabsha, accuse; habshambi, to accuse; habshahoomhi, cause or employ another to accuse ; habahana/nibij to go to accuse ; habshaifijiTnii, to come to accuse. — Awhi or Iambi indicates the active india, -6<xi preceding -mbi denotes the causative. The most marked distinction between these three is the manner in which the negative is used. The Mongol inserts the negative between the subject and predicate ; the Manchu affixes