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’Adą́ą́dą́ą́’ shá bíighah kintahdi tádísháahgo shee ’i’íí’ą́.

yesterday sun proportionate town-at 1-go.about.Prog-GO 1-on 3-sun.went.down.P

’Ahwééh ła’ yishdlą́.

coffee some 3-1-drink.I

’Ajótł’óół laanaa nissin ndi ’aghaa’ shee ’ádin.

4-weave.O hope 3-1-want.CI but wool 3-1-with.me 3-none.NI
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I wish to weave, but I don’t have any wool.

’Anít’i’ ńtłóo’go biniinaa béégashii t’óó yigháníkah.

fence 3-loose.P-GO 3-because.of cow just 3-through-3-go.pl.P
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Because the fence is slack (loose), the cows go right through it.

’Awéé’ dah biséłdá.

baby up 3-1-CAUS-hold.AnO.SPN

’Ámá chaha’oh yiyaagi sidáago dádíníigaazh ’íílééh.

INDEF.mother brush.arber 3-under-at 3-sitting.SPN-GO frybread 3-3-make.I

The mother is sitting under the shade structure making frybread.

’Áłchíní bi’éé’ náádaségis.

children 3-clothes 3-1-wash.R
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I will wash the children’s clothes again.

-ídin

-íniiká

-jí

Bichidí yichǫ’ yę́ędą́ą́’ ’ashkii t’áani’ nálwod.

3-vehicle 3-P-ruin past boy on.foot 3-P-return
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The boy returned on foot when his car broke down.

ch’ééh

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in vain, futilely, try, try in vain

Ch’ééh jiyáán hooghangóó dah dii’ągo shee nikihoníłt.

watermelon home-toward up 3-1-move.SRO.P 1-with area-start-rain.P
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When I set out for home with the melon it started to rain on me.

daooshóó’

pl-3DO-2dpl-brush/comb.it.P

daoołhį́į́’

pl-3DO-2dpl-melt.it.(snow).P

deiilzhóó’

pl-3DO-1dpl-brush/comb.it.P

Dibé tóógóó neeshkał.

sheep water-toward 3-1-herd.Prog

Diné bikéyah bikáa’gi ndahonidzood yę́ędą́ą́’ Naatsis’áán hoolyégóó niha’áłchíní bił ’adahineet’į́į́’.

Navajo 3-land 3-on-at pl-areal-3-flee.pl.P past Navajo.Mountain areal-be.called.NI-to 1pl-children 3-with pl-1dpl-sneak.off.P

Díí dziłígíí shádi’ááh bich’ijígo ’ałkéé’ ’adíítąąd.

this mountain-Comp southward 3-toward-GO one-behind-another 3Pl-scatter.NP
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These mountains are strung out, one behind the other toward the south.

Díí kwe’é biká’ígíí ’índa bik’i’diitą́.

this here 3-on.NOM until.then 3-1.understand.P
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All this writing I now understand it.

Díísh haa yit’éego ’atiin?

this-Q how 3-be.NI road
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How is this road?

Díkwíí jį́ nanilnish?

how.many-Q day 2-work.I

doo --- le’ ’át’éégóó

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used with the optative mode to produce a meaning roughly equivalent to “proof against”

Doo t’áá k’ad bá’ólta’í sélį́į’ da.

NEG just now teacher 1-be.SPN NEG
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I don’t want to become a teacher.

Doozhǫǫgo da’ííłta’ígíí t’éiyá yá’át’éehgo naanish bá dahólǫ́.

satisfactory pl-3-study.P-NOM only 3-good.N-GO work 3-for pl-3-exist.NI

Ha’át’éego lá ’íiyisíí ’atiinjį’ ’ańdeeshdááł lá?

how Q main road-up.to 1-back-on-go.F DISC
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How can I get back onto the main road?

Ha’át’éegoshą’ t’áadoo díníyáa da?

why-Q neg 2-go.sg.P NEG

haa níłtsááz

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how big around, how thick is it

hadaniilchaad

pl-3DO-1dpl-card.it.(as.in.wool).P

hadeneeshchaad

pl-3DO-3dpl-card.it.(as.in.wool).P

hadoołbįįd

3DO-2dpl-fill.something.up.with.it.P

hainííłchaad

3DO-3-card.it.(as.in.wool).P

Hastiin dóó ’at’ééd lá ha’át’íí ’áyiilaa?

man and girl Q what 3-3-make.P

What did the man and the girl make?

hazhniłchaad

3DO-4-card.it.(as.in.wool).I

há’at’é-P.ENCLITIC

where. The expressions formed with ’há’at’é-’ either appear with a postpositional enclitic (also with the subordinating complementizer ’-go’, which we listed separately)

Háadi lá lį́į́’ naakai?

where-at Q horse 3-walk.pl.I

Háíshą’ tsinaa’eeł ’áyiilaa lá?

who-Q boat 3-3-make.P DISC
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Who made a boat?

Hodíína’go deesháál.

in.a.while-GO go.sg.F

jitł’ó

3DO-4-weave.it.I

Kinaaldáágóó jidóya’ t’óó ’ílį́.

puberty.ceremony-to 4-go.O hope just think
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I wish I could go to the puberty ceremony, just thinking.

na’ashkǫ́ǫ́’

1-swim.I

Nizhónígo ha’íí’ą́ yę́ędą́ą́’ sxíiłgo da’ségis.

beautiful sunrise past quickly pl-3-1-wash.P

N bééhózinísh ’éí doodaii’ nicheii daats’í b bééhózin?

2-with 3-know.CI-Q TOP or 2-grandfather perhaps 3-with 3-know.CI

Níwe, tʼáádoo ʼałkʼésdisí niyą́ní.

stop NEG candy 3-2-eat.DI.NEG

Sitsóí ’ólta’góó dah diigháahgo ła’ béeso baa yish’ááh.

1-grandchild school-toward up 3-start.to.go.I-GO some money 3-to 3-1-give.SRO.U

yishbéézh

3DO-1-boil.it.I

Yiską́ągo ’éí Ya’iishjááshchilí náhást’éíts’áadah

tomorrow-GO that June nineteen
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Tomorrow is Juneteenth.

Ła’ damóo yę́ędą́ą́’ dah ’iyétł’ónée, k’ad ’ałníí’góó ’eeshtł’óół.

one Sunday past up 3-1-set.P-past now middle-toward 1-weave.Prog

Łį́į́ b níníłjooł.

horse 3-for 3-2-handle.NCM.F

ʼAzhishgóó, sis łigaii shaʼ díílééł.

dance-to 1-go.F belt silver 1-borrow3-lend.SFO.F