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’Ashkii t’áá shǫǫ ółta’ lá.

boy good.thing 3-learn.I DISC
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It is a good thing the boy is atttending school.

’Atiin bąąhgóó béésh halne’é tsin bá ’adaaz’á.

road 3-along.side telephone pole 3-for 3Pl-stand.upright.SPN
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The telephones are upright along the road for the phone line.

’Awéé’ dah biséłdá.

baby up 3-1-CAUS-hold.AnO.SPN
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I’m holding the baby in a sitting position.

’Azhé’é chízh ’éí nííni’yį́ ’áádóó hastiin bíká ’eelwod.

INDEF.father wood TOP 3-3.haul.complete.LPB.P AND man 3-after 3-run.F
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The father hauled wood and the other man is helping him.

’Ałk’idą́ą́’ ’éiyá naadą́ą́’ ’ayóo k’éédadiilyééh nít’éé’.

long.ago TOP corn very pl-3-1dpl-plant.R past

-ą́ą́h

Chidí bee anídítį́hí bits’ą́ą́’ nídídeesh’į́į́ł ’ííshjáán doo nił bééhózín da lá jiní!

Car 3-by.means.of 3-open-NOM 3-away 3-1-hide.F let’s.see NEG 2-with 3-knowledge.CI NEG disc 4-say.P
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I’m going to hide car keys and let’s pretend that you don’t know about it!!

Da’ Cubadę́ę́’ tsinaa’eeł nił ní’éél?

Q Cuba-from boat 2-with 3-float.P

Dah díníilghaazhísh ’íilnilaa?

fry.bread-Q 3-2-make.P

Damóo yę́ędą́ą́’ Yootóógóó niséyá.

Sunday past Santa.Fe-to 1-go.P

dazhdííłhį́į́’

pl-3DO-4dpl-melt.it.P

Dibé hólǫ́ǫgo ła’ níjół’ah laanaa.

sheep exist-GO some 4-butcher.O hope
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I wish we could butcher, if we had sheep.

dididoołjah

3DO-2dpl-start.fire.F
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start fire, 2nd person dual

Díí lá diichiłí ’át’é ni.

this DISC abalone 3-be.I EMPH
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This, I find, is abalone.

Díídó’ doo ákót’ée daásh łí?

this-DÓ’ neg indef-how-3-be.NI neg-ÍSH ŁÍ

doo --- le’ ’át’éégóó

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

Doo chosh shijooł’į́į́’ léi’gi’ ’át’éégóó sh hóyéé’.

NEG 3-1-make.use.O proof.against-NEG 1-with lazy.NI

Doo nił bééhózín da lá jiní. T’áá káhí la’ bił hóolne’!

NEG 2-with 3-knowledge.CI NEG disc 4-say.P just never some 3-with 2-tell.F (YM 1987:418)

Gohwééh t’áá bizhání ’éí doodaii’ ’abe’ bgo daats’í nínízin?

coffee only TOP or milk 3-with-GO perhaps 3-2-want.NI

Ha’át’íí́sh baa hane’?

What Q 3-for be.told.CI

haa nízahdę́ę́’ hoolzhiizh

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for how long

Haidą́ą́’ ’a’áán góne’ naashnish ńt’ę́ę́’ --- doo shił yá’áhoot’éeh da.

winter-past mine.shaft inside 1-work.I past neg 1-with 3-good.N neg

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

man and girl what Q 3-3-make.P
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What did the man and the girl make?

Hastiin t’áá ’ádzaagóó nahasne’.

man at.random 3-tell.P

Háágóósh díníyá?

where-to-Q 2-go.I

jidooyį́į́ł

3DO-4-eat.it.F

laanaa

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optative particle expressing a positive wish, hope or desire

Mary ha’át’íísh nayiisnii’?

Mary what-Q 3-to.buy.I

Mósí yázhí bimá yits’ą́ą́’ yóó’ííyá.

kitten 2-mother 3-from away-3-go.P

Na’nízhoozhídę́ę́’ shíká b ’oolwoł.

Gallup-from 1-for 3-with 3-drive.I

Naat’áanii bich’į’ yáshti’.

leader 3-toward 1-talk.I

Náshdóí yę́ę noonéełgo wónáásdóó k’adę́ę ’ádįįh jiní.

wildcat former 3-die.off.Prog-GO soon nearly 3-extinct.I 4-say.NI
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Wildcats are dying off and it is said that soon they’ll become extinct.

Nichxǫ' doo ájíníi da.

stop NEG 4-say.thus.NI NEG
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Stop, don’t say it!

Nighéí na’ashch’ąą’ígíí níil’į́.

over.there painting-ÍGÍÍ 3-2-du.look.I
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We (us two) are looking at that painting.

Shá bíighah na’ashkǫ́ǫ́’.

sun proportionate 1-swim.CI

Shichá si’ą́ągo ’iiłhaazh.

1-huddle 3-put-SPN-GO 1-sleep.P
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I went to sleep huddled up into a ball.

Shileechąą’í halǫ́ǫ́ ńt’éé’ są biis.

1-dog have past old.age 3-die.of.P
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I used to have a dog but it died of old age.

Shį́įhgo, doo haigo sin hadidii’áał da.

summer-GO, NEG winter-GO song start-2.sing.F NEG

Sitsilí shilááh ’áníłdáás.

1-brother 1-beyond 3-heavy.NI

T’áadoo tá’dishgéshí nizaagóó dah ’adii’ą́.

before 1-sheer.I-NEG far.away-GOO up 3-sun.rise.P.
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Before I could start sheering, the sun is high up in the sky.

T’áá ká yaa hóólne’

Neg 3-about 3-tell.O
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Don’t let him/her tell it.

T’áá ní’áłtsé hooghandi nánísdzá.

thus you first home-at 1-arrived.Rev. P

T’ááłáhádi neeznádiin dóó ba’aan táá’

one hundred and 3-beyond three

Táá’ daats’í shinááhaigo Hwéeldi hoolyéégóó sh dah ’adiiná níigo halne’ łeh shicheii.

three maybe 1-year.P-GO Fort.Sumner areal-be.called-toward 1-with start.off 3-migrate.P 3-say.NI-GO
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As my grandfather tells it, he was about three years old when he started off with the family on the move to Fort Sumner.

Tsinaabąąs bee nida’abąąs yę́ędą́ą́’ shi’dizhchį́.

wagon 3-with pl-3-drive.I past 1-pass-born.P

Tł’éé’go doo 'ízh'dísóół da.

night-GO NEG 4-whistle.O NEG

Tł’óo’di kǫ’ diltłi’ bikáa’gi chéch’il ła’ dináádísh’nííł.

outside-at fire 3-burn.NI 3-on-at oak some fire-again-3-1-move.PlO.I

Yéego ’ííníłta’, she’awéé’, ’áko nizhónígo ni’dííłtah.

really 2-study.NI 1-baby so well 2-graduate.F
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Give education your best, my child, so that you can graduate.

Yiską́ągo łį́į́’ ’ahaniniilkaad dooleeł.

tomorrow-GO horse 1dpl-round.up.P FUT
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We are going to round up the horses tomorrow.

yoodlą́ą́’

3DO-3-drink.it.P