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YORUBA.
GROWTHER writes:--"The "present" and "imperfect" tenses are both alike; as "moh loh", I go, I went; "awa de", we return, we returned; "o sung", he sleeps, he slept; "o joko", thou sittest, thou sattest. The present tense, strictly speaking, is more frequently expressed by the sign of the
particle "ng", and it is then understood that the action is not yet past; as "a'ng--koh takardah", we are writing a book."--Vocabulary, p. 16.