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Function:

Purposive. Forms verb.

Examples:

1. patátamanikatata ‘they will go plant them’;
2. ášapalulukatak ‘go nurse him!’;
3. iq̓ínwatax̣amšnaš ‘she comes to see me’;
4. amaš áwaaq̓inwatak ‘go have a look at them!’;
5. kutaš ánč̓ax̣i x̣ʷyáyčatata ‘and we will go sweat again’;
6. áw ánč̓wataša pšɨ́t ‘now his dad’s going to go to bed’;
7. pinátisx̣p̓itkatak ‘go comb your hair!’
8. ku pawínax̣ana patmaanítax̣ana tmɨ́šna ‘and they used to go to pick the chokecherry’;
9. wɨ́npata ‘go get, fetch’.
10. ačataš kú wínata x̣nɨ́mˀuyiyatata mɨtáłk̓ʷipa ‘because we will go do the first digging on Wednesday’;
11. wáyx̣tix̣ana wɨ́npatax̣a aq̓uwitpamá płɨ́x̣ ‘we run to buy cough medicine’;
12. kʷnáta kú patánakwinata xúlxulmaaman patátamanikatata ‘there then indeed they will haul the trout and plant them’.
13. ášapaˀatayitak lúlukaš ‘go milk (the cow)!’;
14. Reduces to -ta after a vowel:
    1. áwna łq̓íwitaša ‘let us go play’;
    2. čáwnam mún łq̓íwitata ana kʷná iwá tamicáwas ‘you should never go play where there is a cemetery’;
    3. paˀílax̣yawitax̣ana nɨkʷɨ́t kúušx̣i núsux kúušx̣i x̣nít ‘they used to go dry meat and salmon and roots’;
    4. paˀanítax̣ana Ímatalamyaw ‘they would go to Umatilla in order to make it’;
    5. patáwɨnpayitana tílaaki ‘they went to get him a wife’;
    6. ana pmáy pamáwšuwaša x̣nítatyaw ‘they who are getting themselves ready to go root digging’;
    7. tkʷáyta ‘throw, throw a spear’. Often occurs with a motion verb (such as wína ‘go’):
    8. wínašapam skúulitaša ‘you are going to school’;
    9. ku pawínax̣ana patmaanítax̣ana tmɨ́šna ‘and they would go pick the chokecherry’;
    10. wínanaataš x̣nítana ‘we went root digging’;
    11. kunam páyš wínata x̣nítata kʷaaní ‘and maybe you will go root digging in that direction’;
    12. kutaš wínata ánč̓a x̣nítata ‘and we will go digging again’;

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[NP /-ten/.]

Function:

Present perfect.

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NW Sahaptin. Suffixes to in and un verbs (Umatilla simply lengthens the in and un in the present perfect). See Table 18.

Definition:

Used to describe an action that was done in the past.^{new info}

Function:

Past tense.

Examples:

1. -a after a consonant
   1. pátiyanpa k̓úsi ‘he took the horse away from him’
2. -ya after i
   1. iwiyánawiya ‘he arrived’;
3. -na after vowel
   1. x̣lakníin itkʷátana ‘he ate too much’.
4. Can be used with progressive -ša aspect.
   1. ataš kú ttáwax̣šana kuš áq̓inunx̣ana ‘when we were growing up I used to see them’.

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[NP /-e/; cf. archaic indicative -a.]

Definition:

Want, wish to do something.

Function:

Desiderative. Attach to verbs. Modern speakers of Umatilla usually use -t̓at̓a

Examples:

1. As -t̓a:
   1. čúut̓a ‘be thirsty’;
   2. tkʷátat̓a ‘want to eat’;
   3. wɨšát̓a ‘want to lie down’;
   4. -pát̓a ‘desire, crave’. As -at̓a: ík̓aywakat̓a ‘want to outdo’;
   5. wáyčat̓a ‘go look for’;
   6. wɨ́npat̓a ‘want to cross’;
   7. wɨšáyčat̓a ‘want to stay’. With stem final n deleted: łúukat̓a ‘need to urinate’;
   8. q̓ínwat̓a ‘want to see’;
   9. šúkʷayat̓a ‘want to learn’;
   10. tíitat̓a ‘want to flatulate’;
   11. wɨx̣íyat̓a ‘want to lie down’.
   12. ku kʷyáam pašúkʷayat̓aša sɨ́nwit naamí ‘and truly they went to learn our language’;
   13. ku kʷaaná panáktux̣ʷat̓ašamš ‘and they want to bring that back’;
   14. pápaˀik̓aywakat̓ana ‘they wanted to outdo each other’;
   15. ku kʷná pawámšita ana šíman kʷná pawšáyčat̓ata ‘and whoever will want to stay there will buy on credit’;
2. As -tat̓a:
   1. anítat̓a ‘want to make’;
   2. wínatat̓a ‘want to go’;
   3. x̣nítat̓a ‘want to dig’.
   4. ataš tún anítat̓aša ‘anything that we want to make’;
   5. ana kʷná patáˀanitat̓aša níit ‘where they are wanting to build the house’;
   6. ana túntya áw paˀanítat̓ax̣ana ‘whatever now they would want to make’;
   7. ana kʷɨ́nki paˀanítat̓aša tún ‘with that which they are wanting to make something’.
   8. paˀiƛ̓iyawitát̓ana kʷɨ́nik̓a ‘they wanted to kill them next on that side’;

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[NP /-ˀpécwi/; cf. NP prospective /-tet̓e/ ‘be about to’.]