Function:
Attach to the end of a verb.
- 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’.
See more:
- [NP /-uˀ/, future cislocative /-uˀkum/; Sahaptin future -ta is a grammatical extension of purposive -ta.]