Vocabulary Words:
do (ga do) - what
detsado'a - you are called
dagwado'a- I am called
-ado-
udohiyu - really, very
awi - deer
agina - young animal
osi - good, nice
detsado'v - your name (see note)
hehi - you live; you are a dweller
Golanvyi - Big Cove (place name lit. Raven Place)
gehi - I live; I am a dweller
uwoduhiyu - beautiful (it is)
Prefixes & Suffixes:
osdi- (two of us not including you)du- (3rd per. sg.)
ga- (3rd per. sg.)
yi- (conditional verb prefix)
wi- (action away from speaker)
sdi- (you two)
-i (present tense for some action verbs.)
Note: The noun detsado'v is a form of dudo'v meaning 'his/her name' or simply "a name". It requires the plural prefix d- then the bound pronoun is changed to match the subject.(see -ado- I.e. dagwado'v - my name.
"Tso'i"
Ꮩ ᏕᏣᏙᎠ.
- ᎭᏲᎳᏓᏨ.
- ᎭᏲᎳᏓ. ᎢᎯᎾ.
- ᎣᏏᏉ. Ꮩ ᏕᏣᏙᎠ.
- ᏣᏂ ᏓᏆᏙᎠ. ᎢᎯᎾ.
- ᎠᏫ ᎠᎩᎾ ᏓᏆᏙᎠ.
- ᎤᏙᎯᏳ ᎣᏏ ᏕᏣᏙᎥ. ᎦᏨ ᎮᎯ.
- ᎪᎳᏅᏱ ᎨᎯ.
- ᎤᏬᏚᎯᏳ ᎪᎳᏅᏱ.
Do Detsado'a.
- Hayoldatsv.
- Hayolada. Ihina.
- Osigwo. Do detsado'a.
- Tsani dagwado. Ihina.
- Awi agina dagwado.
- Udohiyu osi detsado'v. Gatsv hehi.
- Golanvyi gehi.
- Uwoduhiyu Golanvyi.
Answer The Questions
1) Yigvyi'i asgaya gado dudo'a.2) Sginasgo asgaya taline asgaya dudo'v osd uyelv.
3) Yigvyi'i asgaya gatsv ehi.
- yigvyi'i - first
- sgina asgaya - that man, the man just mentioned
- taline asgaya - the second man
- osd uyelv - he likes it.
Dialogue Translation
What's your name?
- How are you?
- I'm good. And you?
- I'm good. What's your name?
- My name is John. And how about you?
- My name is Young Deer.
- Really a nice name. Where do you live?
- I live in Big Cove.
- Big Cove is beautiful.
Answers
1) John dudo'a.2) Vv, osd uyelv.
3) Golanvyi ehi.