Talk:-tsoh
Latest comment: 14 years ago by Stephen G. Brown in topic Adjective?
Can this also translate as "large"? 71.66.97.228 07:04, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
Yes. 71.66.97.228 02:54, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
Adjective?[edit]
Is it proper to call this an adjective? I understand that in Navajo usually there are no adjectives per se, but the understanding that a living thing or inanimate object is "being" large or "being" black, etc. 71.66.97.228 08:46, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
- Yes, it’s better to consider tsoh an adjective and nitsaa a verb. Often there is disagreement about parts of speech. Many words that are commonly called nouns may technically be considered verbs. However, there is a sense that monosyllabic nouns underlie a lot of the vocabulary. Some of the forms of the verb include dootsoh (“will become big”), biniiʼtsoh (“become big”), yítsoh (“became big”), nátsoh (“become big again”), wótsoh (“would become big”). But the noun suffix tsoh is not a verb form. —Stephen 03:31, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
Also "tall"?[edit]
Can this also mean "tall," as in Tʼą́ą́tsoh? 71.66.97.228 02:54, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
- Yes, it means big, but by extension it can mean tall, grown, etc. —Stephen 03:15, 15 January 2010 (UTC)