From:Nancy Thomas <nlthomas@YvwiiUsdinvnohii.net>
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Subject:CWY Lesson #7 Want
Date:Thu, 22 Feb 2001 11:38:17 -0800
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Cherokee language lessons Home Page: Archive: Message #10 

Date: May 03 2000 13:42:48 EDT 
>From: "Cherokee language lessons" <botaylor@cherokeemuseum.org> 
Subject: CWY Lesson #7 
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CWY Lesson #7 

Today we are going to work with the  phrase (Ha-gwa-du-li-ha) "I want"
which we learned in lesson #4.  Today we are going to put
(Ha-gwa-du-li-ha) into the first, second and third person and we will look
at the basic structure of Cherokee verbs.

First of all, a verb is basically comes three parts.  The first part of
the verb is the prefix and it lets you know who is involved in the verb.
The second part of the verb is the verb base which tells what the action
is being performed.  The third part of the verb is the suffix and it lets
you know the time frame that the action is taking place.  Here is an
example:

I am wanting. (Ha-gwa-du-li-ha)
Hagw            aduli           ha
I               wants           present tense (right now)

You are wanting. (Tsa-du-li-ha)
Tsa             aduli           ha
you             wants           present tense (right now)

He/she/it is wanting. (U-du-li-ha)
U               aduli           ha
he/she/it       wants           present tense (right now)
(notice that the a is overpowered by the u)

As you begin to learn Cherokee you are going to find that you are mainly
going to be staying in the first and second person.  This is where you
will be talking one on one with another individual.  So keep you focus on
this aspect, until we are ready to move on.

I am also going to teach you how to say "What do you want?" This is
combination of phrases from our previous lesson.  To form the sentence,
simply combine (do-i-yu-s-d) "What is it?" and (tsa-du-li-ha) "you want"
to form (Do-i-yu-s-d  tsa-du-li-ha).  Often, if you and the person to whom
you are speaking know exactly what you are talking about you will leave
off the suffix and simply say  (Do-i-yu-s-d  tsa-du-li) "What do you want?"


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will also get a chance to practice writing in Cherokee.

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