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sngatigna'teget / sn'katikna'teket : work on boom / boom
Recordings:
Diane Mitchell (Listuguj)
Part of speech: verb animate intransitive
Translation: He/she works on a boom
Gloss: work on boom
Gloss: boom
Example:
Text: Nipugtug palpu'te'get toqo tujiw sngatigna'teget sipuigtug. / Nipuktuk palpu'te'ket toqo tujiw sn'katikna'telet sipuiktuk.
Translation: He/she cuts pulp wood in the woods and then works the booms
on the river (that moves the pulp wood to the mill).
Recording: Diane Mitchell (Listuguj)
Pronunciation guide: sên·ka·di·gê·naa·de·get
Alternate grammatical form:
sngatigna'tegei / sn'katikna'tekei — I work on a boom — (first person singular animate)
sngatigna'tegeieg / sn'katikna'tekeiek — we work on a boom — (first person dual exclusive animate)
sngatigna'tega'tieg / sn'katikna'teka'tiek — we work on a boom — (first person plural exclusive animate)
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