This form may be used as a conditional future tense of the Indicative Mood (would), or as a mild expression of the Imperative Mood (should).

Take the past tense form and add “-ᎥᎭ”. Uses “Set A” or “Set B” as parent verb.

• ᏥᏁᏨᎭ
  “I should or would speak”

• ᎯᏁᏨᎭ
  “You should or would speak”

• ᎧᏁᏨᎭ
  “He/she should or would speak”

• Ꭷ, ᎯᎠᏉ ᏂᏪᏒᎭ. (Ꮒ + Ꭿ + ᎤᏪᏒᎢ + ᎥᎭ)

  • ka, just this you should utter.

  • say, I pray thee.

• ᎯᎠ ᏄᏪᏎᎢ, ᎾᏍᏉ ᎨᎻᎵ ᏗᏣᏤᎵᎦ ᎠᎹ ᏓᎦᏥᏢᎡᎵ ᎬᏂ ᏓᎾᏗᏔᎰᏅᎭ. (Ꮥ + ᎠᏂ + ᎤᏗᏔᎲᎢ + ᎣᏅ + ᎥᎭ)

  • this uttered, just those camels really of yours, water I will draw for them until they-drink-finishing-would

  • and saith, also for thy camels I draw till they have finished drinking

• ᎥᏝ ᏰᎵᎦ ᎬᏂ ᏂᎦᏛ ᎠᏫ ᎠᏂᏟᏌᏃᏅᎭ (ᎠᏂ + ᎤᏩᏟᏌᏅᎢ + ᎣᏅ + ᎥᎭ)

  • Not ᏰᎵᎦ until all deer they-gathering-it-finishing-would

  • We are not able, till that all the droves be gathered together

• ᎠᎴ ᏣᏛᏛᏅᎭ, ᎯᎠ ᏂᎦᏪᏒᎭ, (Ꮳ + ᎤᏛᏛᏅᎢ + ᎥᎭ, Ꮒ + ᎤᏪᏒᎢ + ᎥᎭ)

  • and he-should-be-asking-you, this he-should-be-saying,

  • and hath asked thee, saying,

• ᎠᎴ ᏌᏉᏉ ᏴᏫ ᏂᏓᎵᏍᏔᏅᎭ (Ꮒ + Ꮥ + Ꭰ + ᎤᎵᏍᏔᏅ + ᎥᎭ)

  • and just one people

  • and have become one people

Cherokee Messenger, pg 96