-ta

Future tense. áwnam ímč̓a wáta waníči ‘now you also will be named’; pawaníčtanam sɨ́kni ‘they will name you Síkni‘; kumaš ƛ̓áax̣ʷ níix̣ wɨ́šayčta ‘and all yours will become good’. Used in noncounterfactual conditionals: apam kú ttáwax̣ta kupam p̓ɨ́x̣ta ‘when you grow up you will remember’; apam kú tkʷáynpta kupam laˀák wiyáłamayčta ‘when you go hunting you might get lost’. Often with deontic sense: kunam íkʷɨn wínata ‘and you should go there’; qqaanáytapam ‘you should work!’; sápsik̓ʷatapam sɨ́nwit naamí ‘you should teach our language’. [NP /-uˀ/, future cislocative /-uˀkum/; Sahaptin future -ta is a grammatical extension of purposive -ta.]