-an

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