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POLYGLOT MÚNSHÍ

OR

VOCABULARY, EXERCISES, PLEASANT STORIES,

&c. &c. &c.

IN

ENGLISH, PERSIAN, HINDI, HINDUSTANI AND BENGALI,

FOR THE USE OF STUDENTS BOTH NATIVE AND EUROPEAN.

BY

MU'NSHI' DEBI'PERSA'D RA'E.

"Whenever there shall occur an omission or error, cover it
with the mantle of generosity, and hold the pen of correction
running over it."

مامول از منشیان و دانشمندان انکه احیانا اگر سهوي وخطائ
بمشاهده افتد قلم اصلاح بران جاري دارند

بدوش گربخطائي رسي طعنه مزن که هیچ نفس بشر خالي از خطانبود

CALCUTTA :

PRINTED AT THE BAPTIST MISSION PRESS, CIRCULAR ROAD.

1841.

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* The characters of this alphabet are read from right to left.
+ Called by way of discriminationgla (háe huttí.)
As the other, it is termed (háe haus.)

The following example of a Persian Verb, shewing the mode of forming all the tenses from the second person of the imperative, and the third person preterite or infinitive, will be found useful.

* Imperative, juh-leap,

* Aorist, by adding the personal letter ›

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& | Infinitive, justun,-to leap,
Preterite, by dropping

Preter imperfect, by prefixing to pret.
Conditional, by adding

<to do,.

جستن

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N. B. As there are above thirty modes of forming
the imperative, it is difficult to reduce it to rule, and
must be acquired by practice. See Lumsden's grammar,
page 51.

** The letter is frequently prefixed to these tenses; it is
also often prefixed to the preterite; prefixed to any tense,
gives it a continuative sense.

The potential, by prefixing the Aorist and preterite tenses of the verb,

as

جستي

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Future, by prefixing to do,
Passive participle, by adding & to do,.
Preter perfect, by dol to part,
Preter pluperfect, by do sto do,...
Preterite subjunctive,* by do a
2d imperative of duration, by

to do,

to do,

....

خواهد جست

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جسته شدن

The passive voice is formed by the pas-
sive participle and the verb, JA
N. B. The examples are given in the third person,
being the mode prescribed by orientalists.

* Called in Sir W. Jones's grammar the compound future.

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