-ta

Function:

Attach to the end of a verb.

  1. Future tense.
    1. áwnam ímč̓a wáta waníči ‘now you also will be named’;
    2. pawaníčtanam sɨ́kni ‘they will name you Síkni‘;
    3. kumaš ƛ̓áax̣ʷ níix̣ wɨ́šayčta ‘and all yours will become good’.
  2. Used in noncounterfactual conditionals:
    1. apam kú ttáwax̣ta kupam p̓ɨ́x̣ta ‘when you grow up you will remember’;
    2. apam kú tkʷáynpta kupam laˀák wiyáłamayčta ‘when you go hunting you might get lost’.
  3. Often with deontic sense:
    1. kunam íkʷɨn wínata ‘and you should go there’;
    2. qqaanáytapam ‘you should work!’;
    3. sápsik̓ʷatapam sɨ́nwit naamí ‘you should teach our language’.

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  1. [NP /-uˀ/, future cislocative /-uˀkum/; Sahaptin future -ta is a grammatical extension of purposive -ta.]