Geek Page: Kanyen’kéha Sewén:ta 5

Kanien’kéha vs English Word Order

yah tekenénhskwas

  1. Negative
  2. Who does what to whom
  3. What is being done
  4. When/in what way is it being done

I am not stealing it

  1. Who is doing it
  2. When is it being done
  3. Negative
  4. What is being done
  5. In what way is it being done
  6. To whom is it being done

Negative Paradigm of -tshén:ry- ‘find’

I am finding it yah teketshén:ryes
you are finding it yah tehsetshén:ryes
he is finding it yah tehatshén:ryes
she/one is finding it yah teyetshén:ryes
she/it is finding it yah tekatshén:ryes
we two are finding it yah tetenitshén:ryes
s.o. & I are finding it yah teyakenitshén:ryes
you two are finding it yah tesenitshén:ryes
those two ♂ are finding it yah tehnitshén:ryes
those two ♀ are finding it yah tekenitshén:ryes
we all are finding it yah tetewatshén:ryes
others & I are finding it yah teyakwatshén:ryes
you all are finding it yah tesewatshén:ryes
they ♂ are finding it yah tehatitshén:ryes
they ♀ are finding it yah tekontitshén:ryes

Ken’ nikará:’a

    1. Átste raotì:sere ninóhares ne tehniyáhsen tehnón:kwe.

    2. Tsi yekhonnyà:tha kanà:taron kenikhón:nis ne tekeniyáhsen tekenón:kwe.

    3. Kwah í:ken tsi kí:ken yakeninòn:we’s ne aktsí:’a.

aktsí:’a she is in a sibling relationship with someone older
raotì:sere those two ♂’s car
kanà:taron(k) bread
tehnón:kwe they two ♂ are human beings
tekenón:kwe they two ♀ are human beings
kí:ken this
kà:sere, ka’sereht- car, it drags it
tehniyahsen they ♂ are two, there are two of them ♂
tekeniyahsen they ♀ are two, there are two of them ♀
átste outside
tsi yekhonnyà:tha kitchen, the place where she cooks
(a)kwah (í:ken) tsi really, a lot, very
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