The Optative of the First Conjugation The optative, both present and future, is the present tense of the imperative with the particles negavacu va or avare placed before it and the particles gana or caxi placed after it.
Because these forms coincide letter for letter with the honorific causative, the particle ari,u may be placed after the verb and the particle vo may be placed before to avoid confusion; e.
She was seen seated; and her hands, placed before her, were held by the two controllers.
A table is placed before her,--a kitchen table, made of spruce, weighing about fifteen pounds.
I think I see the counsel examining it, and hear the judges calling for it to be placed before them.
Then curses on thee for thy treachery," cried the hag, "and on thy master, who deceived me in the bond he placed before me.
When he got back to France he placed before Henry IV a report on Spanish Central America, together with a project for making a canal at Panama.
And Archestratus says, in his Gastronomy-- Let wrinkled olives, fallen from the tree, Be placed before you.
And he had a table, placed before them on which there was an altar and first-fruits of the different productions of the earth.
I thought, sir, that the 'vi' was to be placed before.
A servant brought me a light dressing-gown, and another came in with linen and a large tub full of water, which he placed before me; my shoes and stockings were taken off, and my feet washed.
He then opened a drawer and took out of it an old piece of paper, which he placed before me.
He generally has a small table, placed before him, which he either stands behind or sits on.
The traveller, in exploring his way through the ruins, is attracted by the light of a dim and dingy lamp, which he finds is placed before a dirty, tawdry picture of the panaya, stuck on the naked wall behind it.
These papers he placed before Rodin's eyes, but without quitting his hold of them.
Near an open piano, was a harp, placed before a music-stand.
By the aid of a cipher (or secret alphabet) placed before him he was copying certain passages from a long sheet full of writing, in a manner quite unintelligible to those who did not possess the key to the system.
Hence, by the time the food isplaced before him, the guest becomes very hungry.
The man who trusts in riches is placed before us; and, that we may see him at his best, he has the riches in which he trusts.
The man who loves riches is placed before us that we may learn what he is really like--that he is not the careless happy being we often assume him to be.
Even the man who has wealth and abundance, so that his soul lacketh nothing of all that he desireth, is placed before us as the slave of unsatisfied desire and constant apprehension.
Ivan and his companions had not been long seated, when a smoking dish of pilau and other Turkish dainties were placed before them.
Throwing himself on a divan, in his principal apartment, followed by all the newly-arrived troop, he caused torches to be brought, and the arms to be placed before him.
Surrounded by their families and friends, seated on the turf, they were enjoying their tea, which was served out of large urns, placed before them on the ground; the joke and the refreshments passing merrily round.
He took his seat respectfully, at some distance from the chiefs, and humbly ate the viands which the Prince ordered to be placed before him.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "placed before" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
