About the verb types
Lmao I make a post explaining a verb type but I don’t delve into the verb types in themselves
Vai: Animate Intransitive Verbs
So this verb type deals with a general subject and no object
Examples:
Wanibaatoo: s/he runs the wrong way
Dakamanji’o: s/he feels cold
Zegiwe: s/he scares people
How to conjugate: Zegiwe.
Inzegiwe (In+verb) - I scare people
Gizegiwe (Gi+verb) - You scare people
Zegiwe (no change) - S/he scares people
Ninzegiwemin (Ni+verb+min) - We (not you) scare people
Gizegiwemin (Gi+verb+min) - We (yes you) scare people
Gizegiwem (Gi+verb+m) - Y’all scare people
Zegiweg (Verb+g)- They scare people
VII: Inanimate Intransitive Verbs
These verbs are often descriptors, meaning that they describe things happening in the environment or characteristics. There usually is no conjugation required for these verbs
Examples:
Mazinaate: it is projected
Wawiyawawiyegad: it is round and cute hawks’s face
Abakamige: the ground is warm
Giizhigad: it is daylight
VTA: Transitive Animate Verbs
I already covered a lot about conjugation and VTAs, but I didn’t cover the basics, plus I might delete that post and post a cleaner lesson.
VTAs deal with both an object and a subject, with the subject being animate (read: Animacy).
Examples:
Dibaakon: Judge (Animate)
-> Gidibaakon: You judge me
Gabaa’: Help (animate) disembark or get off
-> Ningabaa’igonaan: They help us disembark
Wanigwaazh: Make a mistake sewing (animate)
-> Ningii-wanigwaan: I made a mistake sewing it (animate)
VTI: Transitive Inanimate Verbs
These verbs describe actions with inanimate objects. Simple as that.
There are two classes of VTIs, with class two usually ending in -toon, I myself still can’t find the difference between VTI and VTI2 other than that.
Examples:
Wanendan: Forget it
Apiitendan: Be proud of it
Mangitoon: Enlarge it
Izhitoon: Cauae it to be a certain way
As for how to conjugate VTIs? The same way VAIs are conjugated, except VTI class one verbs usually have changes to the endings (that’s probs what classes them to class twos actually now that I think about it).
Niwanendaan - I forget it
Giwanendaan - You forget it
Owanendaan - S/he forgets it
Niwanendaanimin - We (inc) forget it
Giwanendaanimin - We (exc) forget it
Giwanendaam - Y’all forget it
Wanendaanag - They forget it