Suffixes and Prefixes

Question 1

-kwu

Answer 1

future tense

Question 2

-hookwu

Answer 2

present tense (emphasis, happening right now)

Question 3

-pu

Answer 3

past tense

Question 4

-hoo

Answer 4

recent past tense, just happened, intensification of past tense

Question 5

-wunu

Answer 5

present tense

Question 6

repeating the last vowel

Answer 6

present tense

Question 7

-du

Answer 7

one that is, doer, nominalizer (turns something into a noun)

Question 8

-no

Answer 8

and, with

Question 9

-no’o

Answer 9

going along doing the verb action, period of time

Question 10

-kwae / -wae

Answer 10

from in something, from somewhere

Question 11

-ga’a

Answer 11

go over and do the verb action, time to do a verb action

Question 12

-dooha

Answer 12

under something

Question 13

-gooba / -kooba

Answer 13

on top of something

Question 14

-dooha’yoona

Answer 14

from under something

Question 15

-goobakwae / -koobakwae

Answer 15

over something

Question 16

-ga’yoo / -ka’yoo

Answer 16

to have, has, there are, exists

Question 17

-pana

Answer 17

a command

mostly used for negative commands w/ “ki” - e.g. don’t speak, don’t talk, etc.

Question 18

-ka

Answer 18

short command

go away from the speaker - e.g. go lay down

Question 19

-ke

Answer 19

short command

bring to - e.g. bring a handful of pinenuts

Question 20

-ya

Answer 20

command

put on - e.g. put pants on

Question 21

-ma

Answer 21

on, onto, at

can also be used to show what instrument was used

Question 22

-punne

Answer 22

ongoing situation/action for awhile

can imply at a distance (e.g. with weather)

Question 23

-doo / -too

Answer 23

to make the noun it is attached to

Question 24

-tungu

Answer 24

soft command

to ask or tell someone to do the verb it is attached to

Question 25

-bodote

Answer 25

going around in circles, going back and forth

Question 26

-kooha

Answer 26

restart action

Question 27

-gena

Answer 27

come to do something, becoming, getting

sometimes, it pluralizes

Question 28

-dape

Answer 28

doing the verb action continuously, verb action while laying

Question 29

-dame / -tame

Answer 29

towards someone or something

Question 30

-kwa’ne / -wa’ne

Answer 30

to be like, something like, appears to be, seems

Question 31

-su’mu

Answer 31

only

Question 32

-se

Answer 32

was or will be done before the next action. the clause it is attached to occurs before the main clause of the sentence

used with: if, then, after, because

Question 33

-na

Answer 33

involves 2 actions occurring at the same time.

can be used with: “as __”, or “while ___”, or “when ___”

Question 34

-matu

Answer 34

a part or piece of

Question 35

ne-

Answer 35

want, desire

Question 36

na-

Answer 36

shows that the subject and object of a clause are the same. Shows the action of the verb is done to the subject

Can also mean doubling