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In this case, even the impersonal ruling noun is occasionally put in the feminine : थे बोहत बुरी कीनी
IV.55 रषेस्वरां ईसडी कही VI.33 अणदीठी कहै
VIII.16 4. Where there is, in these tenses of transtive verbs, a direct object, our text agrees with what Sir George Grierson has observed in Standard Mārawādi (L.S. p. 15):
"Whenever a transitive verb in the past tense is used in the impersonal construction in Western Hindi, the verb is always put in the masculine, whatever the gender of the object may be. Thus, usane strī ko mārā( not māri), he struck the woman, or, literally, by him, with reference to the woman, a beating was done. In Gujarātī, on the contrary, the verb is attracted to the gender of the object. Thus, tene stri ne māri(not māryo), literally, by him, with reference to the woman, she was struck. Rājasthāni sometimes employs one construction, and sometimes the other, so that, in this respect, it is intermediate between Western Hindi and Gujarātī." (i) Western Hindi construction : तरै दुतांनै कह्यो
VI.6 तरै राजाजी उरवंसीनै बुजीयो (ii) Gujarati construction : **** Fast si gars
IV.32 i istanta igi operit alot 11.17 5. In clauses containing a negative injunction, the negative particle is not 7, TET, but at which is construed with the Simple Present : तु दलगीर मती हुवै
IV.58 थे मन मै दलगीर मती हुंवो IV.66, § 35. ( E ) Hypotaxis of Sentences
1. The subordinate clause regularly precedes the ruling one. The protasis is never opened by a conjunction, and but occasionally
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