-an

Function:

Accusative case. Suffixes to nouns with final vowel a. Attach to a noun.

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Examples:

1. inákpaaša luc̓áan k̓pɨ́tna ‘she is separating out the red beads’;
2. maysxmáysxna áwaƛ̓awiša naamína aniłáan ‘every day we pray to our Maker’;
3. ku k̓ʷapɨ́n tiskayáyaan pániya ‘and he gave the aforementioned to Skunk’;
4. áykɨnx̣anaaš inmína káłaan ‘I used to hear my grandmother’;
5. átawax̣išapam túna mɨláan ‘you are smoking something bad’;
6. ana kú patáwyašana Ímatalampa papúčni wánaan ‘when they were living at Umatilla in the midst of the river’.
7. Also occurs after the kinship suffix -as and inflects pt̓ínits ‘girl’:
   1. paníya pt̓ínisaan ‘they gave it to the girl’;
   2. áykɨnx̣anaaš naamína nč̓ína nakákasaan ‘I used to hear our elder uncle’.

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See more:

-na ‘regular accusative case’