bite him/her/it (insect)
Theme:
O-s-taax'~ (ga event)
for an insect to bite O
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Naish-Story:
si-taax' Notes:
Note that ash wusitáax' and awsitáax' both have basically the same meaning "it bit him/her/it". The difference is that the object pronoun ash "him/her/it" is used when the referent is prominent in the conversation.
Paradigm Forms
Imperfective (+) (doing it; does it)
3s:
[does not occur]
Repetitive imperfective (+) (does it (regularly))
3s:
kei ash satáx'ch
it bites him/her/it (regularly)
Perfective (+) (did it)
3s:
ash wusitáax'
it bit him/her/it
Perfective (-) (didn't do it)
3s:
tlél ash wustaax'
it didn't bite him/her/it
Perfective habitual (+) (does it (every time))
3s:
ash gastáx'ch
it bites him/her/it (every time)
Perfective habitual (-) (hasn't done it yet)
3s:
tlél ash gwastáx'ch
it hasn't bitten him/her/it yet
Future (+) (going to do it)
3s:
kei ash guýsatáax'
it will bite him/her/it
Future (-) (not going to do it)
3s:
tlél kei ash guýsataax'
it won't bite him/her/it
Hortative (+) (let him/her do it)
3s:
ash gaýsatáax'
let it bite him/her/it
Potential attributive (+) (can't do it)
3s:
tlél aadé ash guýsitáax'i yé
no way can it bite him/her/it
Potential decessive (+) (would have done it)
3s:
ash guýsatáax'in
it would have bitten him/her/it
Conditional (+) (if/when s/he does it)
3s:
ash wustáax'i
if/when it bites him/her/it