Suffixes

Question 1

-kwu

Answer 1

Future tense (verb suffix)

Question 2

-hookwu

Answer 2

Present tense with “right now” emphasis (verb suffix)

Question 3

-pu

Answer 3

Past tense (verb suffix)

Question 4

-hoo (verb/time)

Answer 4

Past tense with “just now” emphasis (verb suffix)

Question 5

-du

Answer 5

Doer, one who is (nominalizing suffix)

Question 6

-no

Answer 6

And, with. Goes at end of list.

Example: tuhudya koepano = deer and/with bighorn

Question 7

-ga’yoo

Ex: pabe’ega’yoo

Answer 7

“I have” (not a verb-a suffix)

Ex: I have older brother(s)

Question 8

-‘a

Ex: poohekweta’a

Answer 8

Is

Ex: is blue

Question 9

-gapu

Ex: peagapu, Billygapu

Answer 9

Suffix indicating person has passed on. Can use with name or relationship.

Question 10

Number + -hoo

Ex: Nu wahoo wanga’a’gayoo. Nu paehoo pune’ega’yoo.

Answer 10

Number functioning as object.

Ex: I have two younger brothers. I have three younger sisters.

Question 11

-waetu

Ex: Nu Oodenowaetu.

Answer 11

“At” or “I come from”

Ex: I come from Reno.

Question 12

–wunu

Answer 12

action in progress

repeating final vowel =- more intense action

Question 13

–no’o

Answer 13

going along doing [verb action]
OR period of time

kemmano’o = coming along; pudu tommono’o = getting to be spring

Question 14

—kwae

Answer 14

at/from/in something
OR from somewhere

sungabekwae = “in the cottonwood”; Oodenoowae “at/in Reno”

Question 15

—ga’a

Answer 15

go over someplace and [do verb action]
time to [do verb action]

nobenega’a = “going to visit”; tamanoga’a = “getting to be spring”

Question 16

—yoo

Answer 16

subject marker OR adjective marker

“Eshoo ki pesa’yoo” = “this is not good”

paba’yoo = big

Question 17

—dooha

Answer 17

under something

Question 18

—gooba/—kooba

Answer 18

top of something

Question 19

—doohayoona

Answer 19

from under something

Question 20

—goobakwae
—koobakwae

Answer 20

over something

Question 21

—ga’yoo
—ka’yoo

Answer 21

to have, there are, exists

Question 22

—pana

Answer 22

indicates command

tends to go with “ki”

Question 23

—ka

Answer 23

away from, short command

uncommon, paired with five or so words

Question 24

—ke

Answer 24

bring to, short command

Question 25

—ya

Answer 25

short command

Question 26

—ma

Answer 26

on OR shows what instrument was used

Question 27

—punne

Answer 27

ongoing situation, acting for a while, or at a distance

Question 28

—doo
—too

Answer 28

to make the noun it is attached to

Question 29

—tungu

Answer 29

indicates request or command

softer than —pana, —ka, —ke, —ya

Question 30

—bodote

Answer 30

Going around in circles or going back and forth

Question 31

—kooha

Answer 31

Restart action

Question 32

—gena

Answer 32

Becoming, getting, come to do, or pluralize

Question 33

—dape

Answer 33

Doing verb action continuously or doing while lying down

Question 34

—naga

Answer 34

Among or between something

Question 35

—hootooa

Answer 35

Did verb action and returned

Question 36

—ku

Answer 36

Doing verb action for someone else

Question 37

—kute

Answer 37

Did verb action for someone else or cause something to happen

Question 38

—mena

Answer 38

Approaching completion, getting to, continuing as time goes on

Question 39

—manne

Answer 39

to do