Nouns In Cherokee - Dudodvi
Simple Cherokee Nouns
(Most plants, animals, and inanimate items)
Note: These nouns may not have a plural form nor use bound pronouns. (See: Active/Passive Nouns)
wesa a cat
galtsode/digaltsode a house/houses
dagwalula a car
atsina/anitsina a cedar tree/cedar trees
selu corn
gaduhv/digaduhv town/towns
waya/aniwaya wolf/wolves (Wolf Clan)
aliyesulo/diliyesulo glove/gloves
sduisdi/disduisdi key/keys
utsuwodi/tsutsawodi moccasin/moccasins
gada/digadohi land/lands
Formed Cherokee Nouns
didatsilosdisgi a camera
ayvtsadisdisgi a refrigerator
gawonisgi a speaker
gawonihisgi a language
digowelisgi a writer
digowelisgi a secretary
1. Na wesa agwatseli.
The/that cat is mine.
2. digaltsode utani!
Those houses are too big!
3. tsuwoduhi anitsina aseno na atsina usdi.
The cedars are beautiful but that one [cedar] is small.
4. Hiasgo diliyesulo osd tsayelv?
Do you like these gloves?
5. Na ata gesdi digowelisgi yigi.
That teenage girl is not a secretary.
agw-atseli mine, me-belongs
utani too big
ata she is a teenage girl