1. PRESENT. · Section 2

1. PRESENT.

E ai ki tana, or E ai tana, _according to his [saying] it is_ i. e. _he says_.

E ai ta wai? _who says so?_

2. TRANSITIONAL.

Ka ai he toki mana, _there is an axe for him_, i. e. _he has an axe_.

§ 52. SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD.

1. PRESENT.

Me e ai ana he toki, _if there were an axe_.

2. FUTURE.

Ki te ai he toki, _if there should be an axe_.

§ 53. OPTATIVE MOOD.

1. With "kia".

Kia ai he toki, _let there be an axe_, i. e. _when_, or, _as soon as there is an axe_.

2. With "kei".

Kei ai he toki, _lest there should be an axe_.

VIII. ADJECTIVES AND PARTICIPLES[A]

with the verb substantive.

§ 54. The place of the SUBSTANTIVE VERB in connexion with Adjectives and Participles, is supplied by the verbal particles, the adjective or participle being treated as though it were a verb. It will be seen by the following example of the adjective ora, _well_, _in health_, that the notion of _becoming_, which is peculiarly the characteristic of the transitional, runs more or less through almost all the tenses.

The present tense with e--ana is not required with participles.

[A] By participles here are meant, not participles derived from verbs, as in the European languages, but a class of words of independent origin which can only be rendered into English by participles. Such are oti, _completed_; makona, _satisfied_; pau, _consumed_; &c.

§ 55. INDICATIVE MOOD.