Questions

Are you hungry? Are you thirsty?

These are some important questions when we talk about food and drink. We aren’t going to go into much detail about this but here are the simple ways to respond to these very important questions. “Chee” is added to change a sentence into a question. Listen to the audio and be sure to note how the endings of hungry and thirsty follow the same pattern as for the verbs discussed previously.

Are you hungry? kee noohteh gatawn chee Yes, I am hungry. We noohteh gataan. He's hungry noohteh gatayo I am hungry noohteh gataan They're hungry noohteh gaatayowuk We are hungry noohteh gatanaan

Are you thirsty? ki noohteh awpawgwan chee Yes, I am thirsty. We noohteh awpawgwan He's thirsty noohteh awpawgweyo I'm thirsty noohteh awpawgwan They're thirsty noohteh awpawgweyowuk We're thirsty noohteh awpawgwanaan

At the dinner table!

When sitting at the dinner table one word that we use all the time is the word “pass”. Lets take a quick look at this word before we practice some dialogues! Listen to the following examples and then you too can practice this useful word!

Pass me the tomatoes lis tomaates payshnamowik or payshnamowin lis tomaates Pass me the tea payshnamowin li tea Pass me the salt payshnamowin li sel

Pass me the salt and pepper payshnamowin li sel pi li pwavre Pass me the butter payshnamowin li buerre