taste (a certain way)
Theme:
(yéi) du-ø-nook (Ø state)
for something to taste (a certain way)
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Naish-Story:
doo-ya-nook Notes:
Note that k'idéin "good", given in the paradigm here, can be replaced with a number of adverbial phrases to change the meaning. Here are a few examples: wáa sá duwanook? "how does it taste?"; at géide duwanook "it tastes strange"; and tlél a yáý dunook "it doesn't taste right".
Paradigm Forms
Imperfective (+) (doing it; does it)
4:
(k'idéin) duwanook
it tastes (good)
Imperfective (-) (not doing it; doesn't do it)
4:
tlél (k'idéin) dunook
it doesn't taste (good)
Progressive imperfective (+) ((in the process of) doing it)
4:
(k'idéin) yaa ndunúk
it's starting to taste (good)
Repetitive imperfective (+) (does it (regularly))
4:
(k'idéin) dunúký
it tastes (good) (regularly)
Perfective (+) (did it)
4:
(k'idéin) wuduwanúk
it tasted (good)
Perfective (-) (didn't do it)
4:
tlél (k'idéin) wududook
it didn't taste good
Perfective habitual (+) (does it (every time))
4:
[does not occur]
Perfective habitual (-) (hasn't done it yet)
4:
[does not occur]
Future (+) (going to do it)
4:
(k'idéin) gaýdunóok
it will taste (good)
Future (-) (not going to do it)
4:
tlél (k'idéin) gaýdunook
it won't taste (good)
Hortative (+) (let him/her do it)
4:
[does not occur]
Potential attributive (+) (can't do it)
4:
tlél aadé (k'idéin) çaduwanoogu yé
no way can it taste (good)
Potential decessive (+) (would have done it)
4:
(k'idéin) çadunoogún
it would have tasted (good)
Conditional (+) (if/when s/he does it)
4:
(k'idéin) dunúkni
if/when it tastes (good)
Example(s):
A ýoo yéi yi.oowú, tlél k'idéin gaýdunook.
If you put that in there, it's not going to taste good.
Tlél aadé k'idéin çaduwanoogu yé, tlél ooshgóok at gas.eeyí.
No way can it taste good, he doesn't know how to cook.
K'idéin wudunoogú yaý yakñwasaýáa.
If it tastes good, I'm going to eat it all up.
K'idéin dunúký hóoch awus.eeyí.
It tastes good when he cooks it.
Wáa sá tlaý kasiyidéin duwanook?
How come it tastes so funny?