Sentences and Dialogues 3

Learn Innu grammar by listening and reading along to short sentences and dialogues from Clarke and MacKenzie's Innu Lesson Book. For more information, see the Innu Grammar Pages and the Verb Conjugator.

Advanced – Intended for second-language learners (L2)

Did it rain?, the weather was bad, I played cards, I walked to the store, etc.

See also the Independent Indicative Past

Sentences using animate intransitive verbs with the negative particle apu 'not' and in question-word questions beginning with tanite 'where' and tan 'what, how'

Sentences using inanimate intransitive verbs with the negative particle apu 'not'

Sentences with itashuat (VAI) and itatina (VII)

There are three paddles, there are six cats, there are two chairs, there are eight books...

Sentences with the negative particle apu 'not', question-word questions with tshekuan 'what', tanite 'where' and tsheukuannu uet 'why', and subordinate clauses

 

Sentences with the negative particle apu 'not', question-word questions with tshekuan 'what' and tanite 'where'

Sentences that correspond with English 'probably', 'perhaps', etc.

 

John's father can't find him, I wish..., I don't know if...

 

Evidential suffixes -tak and -shapan and the subjective affixes ka- ...-(u)a.

It seems that..., he must be..., I can see that..., it seems to me that...

 

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