111 Week 6 Day 2

Today's new material came in the form of example sentences, which we received scrambled and took turns arranging the words and affixes into the correct order.

Nü waʻhu puku puni.

English: I saw two horses.

• Note that waha two is contracted to wa- and receives the suffix -ʻhu when describing a noun.
  • TODO: Confirm the details of how this suffix works

Usu peʻhu tusadüʻü puni.

English: He sees three black dogs.

• pahi three is contracted to pe-.
  • TODO: Look this up in the dictionary
• tuhu black is contracted to tu-.
  • TODO: Try to confirm as many details as possible about when these contractions happen, and learn them as necessary/able.
• The -ʻhu suffix, again.

Su nana tühoaweʻi.

English: The man is hunting.

• Note the tü- prefix when a verb has an indefinite object.
• The Bannock dictionary has hoawaʻi for hunt, but we learn it as hoaweʻi (Wycliffe: hoawaeʻe).

Su nana ka tühüča hoaweʻi.

English: The man hunts the deer.

Su nana ka tühüča kuma kwati.

English: The man shot the buck.

• kwati shoot
• tühüča kuma buck (male deer)

Su nana ka tühüča kuma pacaʻhu.

English: The man killed the buck.

• -ʻhu verbal suffix for recent past, something that just happened