A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India v3.c18.65

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A similar misapprehension has occurred in M. In that language, also, *âr*, *ârâ*, are used, added to the infinitive in *ũ*, to make, not a noun of the agent, but a future participle, so far, at least, as the meaning goes. Thus from करũ come करणार “a doer,” and करणारा, obl. करणारे. But these are used in the sense of “one who is about to do,” as in G. So येणारे लोक is “the people who are coming,” *i.e.* “who are expected to come.” Godbole at p. 109 of his excellent Marathi Grammar, indicates rightly the origin of this tense, and illustrates it by such nouns as Skr. कुंभकार, Pr. कुंभआर, M. कुंभार. Other grammarians, however, still speak of “the participle in णार.”