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Today we will make some dates for our calendar. Klamath uses the number form with the -ni suffix to describe something in relation to other numbers-first, second, third, fourth, fifth,... So, we have a third use for this suffix. The suffix -ni indicates what is called the...
Word of the Day
Today we are going to have fun with the info we learned about numbers. I will write up some sentences. One of them will be a good sentence. You get to find the good sentence from among the group. 1. gen waytas lobini gi. Today is Monday. gen waytas lapniks gi. Today is Monday....
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Today we will examine some patterns in numbers, what a number looks like when it is used and some "daily" uses of numbers. For the numbers 20 and beyond we have some interesting ways the numbers are expressed. There is a suffix -ni- that is used two different ways. The first...
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This week we will be looking at Klamath numbers. 1. one=nas 2. two=lap 3. three=ndan 4. four=wonip 5. five=tonip 6. six=nacksept 7. seven=lapksept 8. eight=ndanksept 9. nine=nacqeks 10. ten=tewnip The numbers from 11-19 have a different pattern that is used in many numbers...
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Today we are going to take the sentences we made for the last two days and take it to the next level of complexity. There are several things we could do, but we will add adjectives to our sentences. Our sentence structure was the basic Pronoun + noun + Verb. Our new...
Word of the Day
Today we are going to look at a couple more sentence structures that can be easily completed. 1. The first sentence structure we will look at is: I want______. ni _______ sanauli. As we did yesterday, the blank can be filled to complete the sentence. In this case, it can be...