Today we are going to look at the other 3 question types we are going to work with. 1. waq=how. This type of question has the word “waq” added to the beginning of the sentence and has the pronoun adjusted to fit the situation. ni panotkis uyamna. I am holding […]
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Making questions There are 6 types of questions that we need to use right now. We will examine three today and three more the following day. 1. Yes/no question Made by adding the word” dal” to the beginning of the sentence and changing the pronoun to fit the situation. […]
Today we are going to review 2 things. hostga=scare, scared of, threaten or intimidate i nis hostga. You scare me. ni witemam we-as hostga. I am scare of bear cubs. The second item we are going to review is how to make a yes/no question. This is made by adding […]
Today we are looking at the sentences from yesterday. 1. waq i hoslta? How do you feel? 2. ni mo dic hoslta! I feel very good! 3. waq mi ptisap hoslta? How does your father feel? 4. q-ai hot dic hoslta! hot mo masa. gaw pkisap gejigis hoslta. He does […]
For the next few days we will be going through a review of the items we have learned. We have covered a lot of stuff. In making sentences, you can double your sentences by adding the word “dal” at the beginning of the sentence. This turns a sentence into a […]
Today we are going to continue our examination of the suffix -tkis. This suffix is added to verbs to make nouns used to make the verb action happen. gankanga is the Klamath verb meaning to hunt. Remember that this noun doesn’t have just one meaning. There will be a group […]
Today we will continue with -otkis suffix -otkis is a suffix for verbs that makes nouns. These nouns create groups of nouns that will have their specific meaning given by the context of the sentence. The meaning of these nouns are the tool, instrument or the thing used to make […]
This week we will be examining the suffix-otkis. This is a suffix attached to verbs to make nouns. This noun means: the tool, instrument or the thing utilized to make the meaning of the verb happen. This suffix does not create one noun but usually a group of nouns as […]
Today we are going to finish up with our study of “hoslta.” We are going to look at a sentence we looked at on the Zoom meeting on Wednesday I am scare of the black bear. What is of interest here is the suffix for “of.” The suffix is -am. […]
Today we are continuing with the verb “hoslta.” Today we will examine a different aspect of this verb. We know that “hoslta” requires a noun. So far we have examined nouns created from verbs. Today we will look at “normal” nouns when used with “hoslta.” The sentence structure we will […]