Because of the fire in the area, the tribe was closed for a week. This makes it a little difficult to pick up where we ended. But, we ended with how to make a yes-or-no question. Today we are going to show what a good response looks like. Even in […]
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Today we are going to begin our introduction to questions. We can make sentences and by asking a question we will begin a conversation. Do you remember my demonstration question? ni yayna sle-a. I see the mountain. I am going to show you why I call it a demonstration sentence. […]
Today we are going to see our first verbal suffix. A suffix is a piece of information that has no meaning of its own except when it is put onto the end of a word it changes the meaning of the word. A verbal suffix is a suffix used only […]
Last night in the Zoom Meeting there was a request to cover “family.” In Klamath family is a vast work. We are starting to get comfortable making sentences and should not deviate from that. But we can incorporate the names of family members into the sentences we are making. pkolip=mother’s […]
Today we will continue what we did yesterday. It is very important to be able to make sentences AND be able to modify them at the same time understand what the changes will do to the meaning of the sentence. We will use a different verb but do pretty much […]
Today I am going to make some sentences from the verbs we did yesterday. I will leave it to you to translate the sentences. I will pick one verb and make a series of sentences using the time elements as the only change in the sentences. The sentence we will […]
Greetings everyone! Today we will look at three verbs. Then we will go on to time elements and add these to our sentences. Then we will translate them. Whenever you make a sentence, it is a very good idea to translate them. First verb: The 1st verb is one you will […]
Our three verbs today are: shuta=do, make; gena=go; wola=ask. shuta is a verb that needs to have an object even if it is “it.” Can you find a noun that can be used in a sentence that says: I made it. gena is the usual verb that says: “you go/went […]
Last night we had a good Zoom Meeting-5pm-5:30pm. It went well and I want to thank those who came and participated. Today we will continue with the third group of three verbs and add a Time Element to our sentences. Time elements are one way that Klamath can locate their […]
Today we will look at the 2nd group of three verbs: ambodga-thirsty, bonwa-drink and pan-eat. As before we will use ni-I as the subject in the sentence. There are two types of verbs-one that requires an object and one that does not require an object. A verb that requires an […]