Navajo edit

Etymology edit

y- (3rd person object prefix) + -di- (inceptive) + -∅- (3rd person subject prefix) + -ł- (classifier, causative)-baał (imperfective stem of root -BAAL, “to hang curtainlike”).

Verb edit

yidiłbaał

  1. he/she is hanging it up (as a dress on a clothesline)
  2. (esp. in the iterative) he/she is swinging him/her/it (as a child on a swing)

Conjugation edit

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Paradigm: Momentaneous (∅/si).

IMPERFECTIVE singular duoplural plural
1st person dishł diidł dadiidł
2nd person díł dohł dadohł
3rd person yidił deidił
4th person jidił dazhdił
PERFECTIVE singular duoplural plural
1st person débaał deedbaał dadeedbaał
2nd person díníbaał disoobaał dadisoobaał
3rd person yideezbaał deideezbaał
4th person jideezbaał dazhdeezbaał
FUTURE singular duoplural plural
1st person dideeshbaal didiidbaal dadidiidbaal
2nd person didííbaal didoohbaal dadidoohbaal
3rd person yididoobaal deididoobaal
4th person dizhdoobaal dazhdidoobaal

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