Navajo edit

Etymology edit

na- (atelic, circuital) + -y- (3rd person object prefix) + -∅- (3rd person subject prefix) + -∅- (classifier)-niih (imperfective stem of root -NIIʼ, “to act with the hand”).

Verb edit

neiniih

  1. he/she is giving them out, distributing them

Conjugation edit

Paradigm: Continuative (∅/si).

IMPERFECTIVE singular duoplural plural
1st person naashniih neiiʼniih ndeiiʼniih
2nd person naniniih naahniih ndaahniih
3rd person neiniih ndeiniih
4th person njiniih ndajiniih
PERFECTIVE singular duoplural plural
1st person niséniiʼ nisiiʼniiʼ ndasiiʼniiʼ
2nd person nisíníniiʼ nisooniiʼ ndasooniiʼ
3rd person neizniiʼ ndeizniiʼ
4th person njizniiʼ ndajizniiʼ
FUTURE singular duoplural plural
1st person ndeeshnih ndiiʼnih ndadiiʼnih
2nd person ndíínih ndoohnih ndadoohnih
3rd person neidoonih ndeidoonih
4th person nizhdoonih ndazhdoonih

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