Word Order Citizen Potawatomi Nation语序公民波塔瓦托米国家.pptVIP

Word Order Because so much of the information is contained in the verb. Word order is not as important. Ne questions When asking a simple question the ne which indicates a question should be the second word in the sentence or as close to the front as possible. Gbekte ne? Are you hungry? Gwimaji ne wabek? Are you going to leave tomorrow? Dawewgemek ne ggizhya ga gishpnedoyen. Did you go to the store and buy something. Put the most important thing out front It is a good technique to get into the habit of doing of putting the most important thing out front. So if someone asked you where you are going you would put the place out front. If someone asked you when you were leaving you would put the time out front. Kind of backward to English It ends up seeming a bit backwards to english. A note of caution would be to not say something in exactly the order you say it in english. Although it wont technically be wrong it will be quite clear to a speaker you are new at the language. If there are a number of actors in a sentence it could be said or written in a number of ways all right but one best case. All of these sentences equal the same thing but the first one is the most appropriate. I could have written down a few others but didn’t have room Dawewgemgok ngi zhya ga gishpnedoyan anet mskekiwen nJohn. Ngi-zhya dawewgemgok ga gishpnedoyan anet mskekiwen John. John ngi-gishpnedon anet mskekiwen ga zhyayan. Anet mshkekiwen dawewgemgok ngi zhya ga gishpnedoyan John. Remember to get into the habit of not saying it just like English that way you will be a better speaker It will take a little while to get used to this. IW End * *