Linguistic Survey Of India Vol V Part I Indo Aryan Family Eastern Group

BENGALI.

The Verb Substantive is conjugated as follows :-
Present. Past,
Sing, and plur. Sing. Plur.
1. agi, I am, we are, #»*',! was, fan, we were.
2. agot, or **, thou art, you are, % thou wast, eld, you were.
3. age, or net he is, they are, el,he was; elak> they were,
The conjugation of the Finite Verb closely resembles that of Chittagoug. The
principal exception is that the first person ends in m or 00* Other detail will be found
in the list of standard words appended, The Conjunctive Participle ends in mi, as in
jeiwi) having gone.
A brief Ciaknia Vocabulary, under the name of Doing-nuk, is given by Phayre on
p 712 of VoL X, Pt. 1,1841, of the Journal of the' Asiatic Society of Bengal.