Lesson 7 - More Commands
Gego biindigeken - Don't enter.
Gego biindigekeg - Don't enter you people.
Gego zaaganken - Don't go outside.
Gego zaagankeg - Don't go outside you people.
Biindigedaa - Let's go inside.
Zaagaandaa - Let's go outside.
Giiwedaa - Let's go home.
Wiisinidaa - Let's eat.
Daga wiiba wiisinidaa - Come on let's eat soon.
Maajaadaa - Leat's leave.
New Words:
gego - don't! don't do!
daga - please
wiiba - soon
Note
To give a prohibitive command with 'don't' to one person you should place a word gego before a verb and add -ken at the end of a verb:
wiisini - gego wiisiniken (don't eat!)To give a prohibitive command with 'don't' to more than one person you should place a word gego before a verb and add -keg at the end of a verb:
wiisini - gego wiisinikeg (don't eat you people!)'Let's' is expressed in Ojibwe by adding -daa at the end of a verb:
wiisini - wiisinidaa (let's eat!)
Grammar note.
Prohibitive commands are formed with a word gego - don't ! (do not mix with gegoo - something). Suffixes also change: -ken for you singular, and -keg for you plural.Command suffix for 'we': -daa. Negative command suffix for 'we': -sidaa (-zidaa).