Introductions

Question 1

nindonjibaa

Answer 1

I am from

Question 2

Minogizhebaawagad.

Answer 2

It’s a good morning.

Question 3

Pat ina gidizhinikaaz?

Answer 3

Pat are you called?

Question 4

Enh, Pat nindizhinikaaz. Aaniin ezhinikaazoyan?

Answer 4

Yes, Pat I am called.
What are you called?

Question 5

Aaniindi onjibaayan?

Answer 5

Where are you from?

Question 6

Howah! Michigan onjibaa nookomis.

Answer 6

Wow. My grandmother is from Michigan.

Question 7

Makwa nindoodem. Awenen doodem dibendaagoziyan?

Answer 7

Bear is my clan. Who (is the) clan you belong to?

Question 8

Maang nindibendaagoz.

Answer 8

Loon is the one I belong to.

Question 9

Gaawiin ningikenimaasii nindoodem.

Answer 9

I don’t know my clan.

Question 10

Ahow, ambe izhaadaa wiisiniwigamigong.

Answer 10

OK let’s go to the restaurant.

Question 11

Wiisinidaa gaye Anishinaabemodaa!

Answer 11

Let’s eat and speak Anishinaabemowin!

Question 12

Nindaa Franklin.

Answer 12

I live in Franklin.

Question 13

Nanaandawi’iwe
Nanaandawi’iwed
Nanaandawi’iwejig

Answer 13

– to heal people (vai)
– doctor or nurse
– doctors or nurses

Question 14

Ozhibii’iged

Answer 14

writer

Question 15

Gekinoo’amaaged

Answer 15

teacher

Question 16

Niizho-biboon ninanda-gikendaan

Answer 16

Two years I have been learning

Question 17

Nindanishinaabemogikinoo’amaage.
Ningikinoo’amawaag ezhiwebak mewinzha.

Answer 17

I teach others to speak the Anishinaabe language.
I teach history. (I teach what happened long ago.)