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A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India v3.c17.s2.44

A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India v3.c17.s2.44

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v3.c17.s2.44

where the type of the future is mixed up with that of the present. I have heard this form used mostly at the end of a sentence, where the speaker seems to hesitate, as if he felt the want of something more to say, and ultimately adds a gá. It is also used doubtingly, as when you suggest a possible explanation of some difficulty, and your companion answers “well, perhaps it is so”—हैगा.