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Introduction. Lesson 1. Citation form of nouns and adjectives Locative expressions Formation of adverbs Asking questions Consonant final words Pronouns, possessive adjectives and possessive pronouns Formality The Present tense of 'to be' The verbs of motion and similar formations Lesson 2. The plural of nouns The Dative case The Genitive case Declensions and Demonstratives Adjective agreement with Datives and Genitives Preverbs Numbers Telling the time Days of the week Months of the year The Present tense of the verbs 'to stand up', 'to lie down', 'to sit down' Names denoting common relationships and possessives Lesson 3. Asking about and stating one's age The comparative and superlative grades of adjectives and adverbs The Instrumental case Adjective agreement with the Instrumental Postpositions Subject-agreement markers within the verb for intransitive subjects Lesson 4. The division of the tense-system Subject and direct object case marking and verbal agreement for Series I transitives Word-order Transitive verbs in the present indicative Neutral Version Verb-agreement with 3rd person plural subjects Syncope of -o- in nouns The Adverbial case of nouns Adjective agreement with nouns in the Adverbial case The postposition -mde up to Lesson 5. Subjective Version Indirect Objects Locative Version Indefinite Pronouns and Adverbs Articles Lesson 6. The future indicative of transitive verbs Object agreement affixes Reflexives Emphatics Pronouns Lesson 7. Objective version Expressions with too, also, as well Emphatic interrogative particle Relative Clauses The potential negative The Vocative case Adjective agreement with the Vocative Lesson 8. The syntax of Series II transitive verbs The Ergative case Declension types and agreement patterns The aorist indicative forms of transitive verbs Lesson 9. The formation of colloquial relative clauses Temporal clauses meaning 'when' Temporal clauses meaning 'while' Manner clauses meaning 'as, like' Temporal clauses meaning 'as soon as' Temporal clauses meaning 'after' Noun-clauses Causal clauses 'because, as, since' Simple Conditional (if) clauses The verb 'to know' in the Present Indicative Lesson 10. The formation of the Present and Future Indicatives of intransitive verbs Meaning and syntax of intransitive verbs The marking of intransitive verbs with indirect objects Some anomalies among the intransitives The irregular Future indicatives Lesson 11. The formation of the Aorist Indicative for intransitive verbs The syntax required by intransitive verbs in Series II The Medial Verbs in the present, future and aorist indicatives The syntax of Medial verbs Version as a change of tense marker Lesson 12. The formation of the Aorist Subjunctive for Transitive Intransitives and Medials Some uses of the Aorist Subjunctive How to issue an instruction in the Imperative How to construct expressions of Prohibition Lesson 13. Stative Verbs The Indirect Verbs How to say 'X wants to (VERB)' and 'X can (VERB)' How to express the notion 'convey' How to say 'know' in the future indicative Forms of the more important stative verbs Lesson 14. Formation of the imperfect indicative, present subjunctive, conditional and future subjunctive Expressions of the type 'if X were to (be) verb(ing), Y would be (verb)' Constructing imperatives from verbs without an aorist indicative Constructing expressions of the type 'X out to be verbing' Expressions of purpose relating to the future Some other verbs that take the aorist subjunctive</

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