Lesson 3 - Weather
Mino-giizhigad - It is a good day.
Mino-giizhigan - It is a good day.
Gimiwan - It is raining.
Gichi-gimiwan - It is raining hard.
Zoogipon - It is snowing.
Gichi-zoogipon - It is snowing hard.
Noodin - It is windy.
Gichi-noodin - It is very windy.
Gizhide - It is hot.
Gichi-gizhide - It is very hot.
Gisinaa - It is cold.
Gichi-gisinaa - It is very cold.
Zaagaate - It is sunny.
Gichi-zaagaate - It is very sunny.
Ningwaakod - It is cloudy.
Gichi-ningwaakod - It is very cloudy.
New Words:
mino- - good
giizhigad or giizhigan - day.
gichi- - big, great, very.
Note.
All weather words in Ojibwe are verbs. They could be used alone for to make a statement about weather (as the statements above). All the verbs listed above are in the present tense. This means that they indicate events occuring when you are speaking, now, in the present.
Grammar note.
All words used in this chapter are verbs. Many words which we define in English as adjectives, adverbs and even nouns, are verbs in Ojibwe. Verbs amount about 80% of Ojibwe language vocabulary.