Now, we have made some rapid fire sentences. We are doing to continue that but with a slight addition. After every sentence, we will turn it into a “yes/no” question. By adding the word “dal” to your sentences, you are asking a yes or no question. You also have to […]
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I gave you a couple days to take in the last posting. You really need to be able to make Klamath sentences if you want to speak Klamath. I am going to show you a rapid fire sentence making plan. With it you can make lots of sentences. You take […]
We are making sentences. Subject + Object + Verb=sentence. All languages are sentence oriented. To learn any language , you make sentences, read and write. For the moment, you should use “ni” as the subject of your sentences. After you get the hang of making the sentences you want, you […]
Since there are several new people in the Zoom meeting, we will start again at the beginning for them and as a review for the others. A sentence is made from a Subject-the thing in the sentence that does the action in the sentence. The verb is the action in […]
We are going to build new knowledge of Klamath by building on what we already know. We are going to combine a sentence in ” if” with some of what we just learned. he i lacas geliak, dada i ciya? If you don’t have a house, where do you stay? […]
We have seen how the suffix -opka can be used and that it has the same meaning as : “sanauli.” So, it can use the same sentence structure as : “sanauli'” uses. Two sentence structures we have looked at that can be used to generate hundreds of sentences are: dwa […]
Today’s word is a verbal suffix. It is used in place of a full verb. The suffix is: -opka. The suffix -opka can take the place of the verb sanauli. It expresses ” want” as it is the “Desiderative” of Klamath. This just means that it expresses the idea of […]
Today we are going to look at two verbal suffixes. The suffixes are -tki and -yega. Suffix -tki is used to indicate that a strong is intended by the verb. It is something that you “should” do. You should go home now! at i cis genatki! Yesterday we had the suffix […]
Today we will look at a verbal suffix. It says a lot what life was like for our ancestors. They had a way of asking “Please.” This suffix goes onto any verb. It is the suffix -ank. This is one place on the list of getting someone to do something. […]
The word today is a suffix used on nouns. The suffix is -la. This suffix is used mostly with reference to food. For example, the word for huckleberry is” iwam.” It can be attached here with the meaning of gathering or collecting huckleberries. iwamla ona sa iwamla. Yesterday they gathered […]