Lesson 19 - Where are you going?

Aandi ezhaayan? - Where are you going?
Adaawewigamigong ninizhaa - I am going to the store.
Aandi ezhaad gabaabaa? - Where is your father going?
Aandi ezhaad? - Where is s/he going?
Oodenaang izhaa - S/he is going to town.
Aandi ezhaawaad igiwe gwiiwizenzag? - Where are those boys going?
Aandi ezhaawaad? - Where are they going?
Gikino'amaagewigamigong izhaawag - They are going to school.
Oodenaang izhaadaa - Let's go to town.
Adaawewigamigong izhaan - Go to the store.
Aandi bi-onji-ayaayan? - Where are you coming from?
Aandi bi-odoseyan? - Where are you coming from?
Aandi wendoseyan? - Where are you coming from?
Adaawewigamigong nimbi-onji-ayaa - I'm coming from the store.
Endaayaan bi-izhaan - Come to my house.
Oodenaang na gidizhaa? - Are you going to town?
Oodenaang izhaa nimbaabaa - My father is going to town.
Oodenaang izhaawag nimiseyag - My older sisters are going to town.
Aandi gaa-izhaayan bijiinaago? - Where did you go yesterday?
Oodenaang ningii-izhaa - I went to town.
Aandi eyaad gigozis? - Where is your son?
Aandi gigozis eyaad? - Where is your son?
Adaawewigamigong ayaa - He is in the store.
Oodenaang ayaa - He is in town. 
 
 

New Words:

adaawewigamig(oon) - store
izhaa - he goes
gikino'amaagewigamig(oon) - school
onji- - from there
odose - he walks from there; also: ondose
endaayaan - at my house, home
oodena(wan) - town 
 
 

Note.

Aandi in Ojibwe means just 'where'. When some additional information is needed, as 'where from', 'where to', these 'from' and 'to' are added to a verb as preverbs:

aandi bi-onji-ayaayan - where are you coming from? = 'where from you are here', or word by word "where here-from-are-you".

Note that bi- (here, move towards the speaker) and ani- (there, away from speaker) stand before onji- (from). It is important. These preverbs always precede onji- (from there) and izhi- (to there).

Instead of bi-onji-ayaayan it is possible to say - bi-odoseyan. Odose (walk from) already contains 'from', and you don't need to place onji-.

All in all bi- also could be omitted, cause it's clear from context that you are here:

aandi wendoseyan? - where are you coming from?

If a verb starts with o- (odose), in wh-questions o- changes into we- (wendoseyan).

An answer to the where-question may be just one word (ayaa may be omitted):

Aandi eyaad gigozis? - Where is your son?
Oodenaang. - In town.

Endaayaan - means "at my home" only.
 
 

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Grammar Note.

Endaayaan - is a participle of a verb daa - "dwells (somewhere)". It means "at my home". Since it is a participle its forms for your, his, etc home are different:

endaayaan - at my home
endaayan - at your (singl) home
endaad - at his home
endaayaang - at our (exc) home
endaayang - at our (inc) home
endaayeg - at your (pl) home
endaawaaad - at their home

 

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