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Cherokee language lessons Home Page: Archive: Message #20 

Date: May 18 2000 16:25:10 EDT 
>From: "Cherokee language lessons" <botaylor@cherokeemuseum.org> 
Subject: CWY Lesson #17 
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CWY Lesson #17

Today we are going to finish with the Cherokee classificatory verbs for 
"Give me or hand me".  The last verb form we will learn is (s-gi-ka-si)
which translates to "give me or hand me" in the animate form. 

The animate form includes all things that are alive.  Here are some sample
sentences using (s-gi-ka-si).

Hand me the baby.
U-s-di-i    s-gi-ka-si          Formal or Syllabary pronunciation
U-s-di      s-gi-ka-si                    Conversational pronunciation
baby         hand me

Note: (U-s-di) literally translates into small or little.

Give me the dog.
Gi-hli        s-gi-ka-si        Formal or Syllabary pronunciation       
Gi-hl         s-gi-ka-si        Conversational pronunciation
dog          give me

Give me the cat.
We-sa       s-gi-ka-si  Formal or Syllabary pronunciation       
We-s         s-gi-ka-si Conversational pronunciation
cat            give me

Give me the rabbit.
Tsi-s-du      s-gi-ka-si        Formal or Syllabary pronunciation       
rabbit         give me

Hand me the mouse.
Tsi-s-de-tsi       s-gi-ka-si           Formal or Syllabary pronunciation    

Tsi-s-de-ts        s-gi-ka-si             Conversational pronunciation
mouse               hand me

Hand me the turtle.
Da-ka-si       s-gi-ka-si               Formal or Syllabary pronunciation    

Da-k-si         s-gi-ka-si                Conversational pronunciation
turtle              hand me
Note: This is the word for tortoise or the common box turtle.

Practice your five different forms of "give it to me".  Find a partner and
ask them to show random objects.  You will then ask your partner to give
you the item by using the correct verb form.  

We will examine another form of classificatory verbs in the future.  

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