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We have been talking about making sounds. I started to think about the degree of making a sound-quietly or loudly. "hema" means to make a sound. gaw posis hema.  My cat meowed. gaw posis gillank hema. My cat meowed loudly. gaw posis gemgem hema. My cat meowed...

Today we are going to identify some animals by the sound they make and place them into the sentence pattern we have been discussing the last few days. "hema" is to make a sound. It is unique to each animal that makes the sound. An owl hoots. mokas hema. A raven caws. ka-ak...

We are going to stay with "hema" for another day. This verb offers many possibilities. We are going to use the structure of: ni _____ _______ domna. I hear ____ ____. This is another example of a verb being made into a noun by using the suffix -is. ni posisam hemis domna. I...

There is a verb in Klamath that "adapts" to the doer of the action. What does that mean? It means that there is a verb that is used to indicate that something is making a sound. That verb is: hema. When a cat "hema" it means that the cat meows. A dog can "hema" and it means...

Today's interesting verb is: stani-to be full of. psinnat galo qcol stani. At night the sky is full of stars. snolas napal stani. The nest is full of eggs. goge wisink stani. The river is full of snakes.

Today we will continue with interesting verbs. Today's verb is meya=to dig an edible root out of the ground. sa ipos meya. They dug ipos out of the ground. sa meyotkis gi. They had a digging tool. A meyotkis is also called an amda.