More Verbs
When talking about your family we use a number of different questions and different verbs. Lets take a look at the verb to see.
To see: Present tense
I see. You See. He sees. | They see. We see. keewapataenawow |
Remember that when you use a verb in past tense in Michif all you need to do is add kee or gee. Look at the following example.
To see: Past tense
I saw. You saw. He saw. | We saw. They saw. keewapataenawow |
Lets build on this!!
In Michif we do not often have separate words, words a modified and prefixes and suffixes are added to talk about who is doing what. In English we use different words to show this but in Michif the verb is modified to show who is doing and receiving the action.
For example in English we say:
I saw him.
But in Michif we say:
Geewapamaow
Lets take a look at this a little closer and we will start to see a pattern!! We will discuss this more in future lessons. This is starting to get pretty deep into grammar so for our purposes we will just introduce this idea now and in the future you will see further lessons on this!
| I saw. gee wapataen I saw him. I saw them. You saw him. You saw them. He saw them. kee wapamayo | They saw. kee wapatamwuk They saw him. They saw them. We saw him. We saw them. You saw him (plural). kee wapamaywuk |
