MAKING SNOWSHOES
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Dena'ina: ch'u niłkadetghiłyesh.
English: and you tie the tail together.

Mode/Aspect = Transitional (T) + Mode + Perfective (P)

  Conjunction Prefix Positions Stem
Adverb Incorporate Gender Inceptive Mode/Aspect
T+Mode+P		 Inner Subject Pronoun Classifier
Morphemes ch'u nił ka de t ghe i ł yesh
Morpheme Changes           gh      
e deletes to avoid double vowels
English and together tail actions involving wood future future you (singular)  

tie, lash

Mode: future

Aspect: reversative

Verb Theme Object + ł classifier + yuch' (root)
Meaning tie object
Theme Class Successive
Type  

Stem Set: Root = yuch', Tag = tie
  Mode
Aspect Imperfect Perfect Future Optative
Reversative yesh yuch' yesh yesh/yish
Momentaneous zhush zhuch' zhesh zhesh/yesh
Neuter zhuch'      
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