Dictionary Entry [entry ID #1740] (related entries)
'owhts'it • I know it • verb (theme: O-o:-(w)-ł-ts'it) [imperfective, 1sg subject, inanimate object]
- do:-'owhts'it I don't know, I'm ignorant of it [imperfective, 1sg subject, inanimate object]
- ky'owhts'it I know about something, I'm acquainted with it [imperfective, 1sg subject, thematic object]
- nowhts'it I know you [imperfective, 1sg subject, 2sg object]
- ch'ohłts'it he knows it [imperfective, animate subject, inanimate object]
- do:-ch'ohłts'it he doesn't know [imperfective, animate subject, inanimate object]
- 'o:yłts'it I got to know it, I found out about it [perfective, 1sg subject, inanimate object]
- ky'o'wiłts'it he got acquainted with it [imperfective, thematic object]
- niwhongxwo-'owhts'it I'm right, correct [literally, in a good way, well-I know it]
- ninis'a:n-whohłts'it I know the country [literally, the country knows me]
Audio (click to listen)
- 'owhts'it
I know it (spoken by Verdena Parker)
- do:-'owhts'it
I don't know (spoken by Verdena Parker)
- do:-ch'ohłts'it
he doesn't know (spoken by Verdena Parker)
- ła'ay-xw do:-'owhts'it
I don't know (spoken by Verdena Parker)
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- ky'owhts'it (spoken by Billy Carpenter)
- kyowhts'it (spoken by Marjorie Jarnaghan)
Examples from texts
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he knows everything
he doesn't know how I can be in that phone
he doesn't know what he's going to do with it, and then that
when it rolled into them a big noise came up, then it dawned on her and she thought
haya:ł mine:jixomił hayi-xw na:'iya' haya:ł tsumehstł'o:n ya'xo:tehłts'it xoł dinił'a' ya:'uschwe'n diywho' [nay...] na:k'iwilxut'-tah
and then after a while, she'd walk around there, then she started to get acquainted with women, they started teaching her sewing and stuff like that
"she knows a lot of things, that one"
... everything I learned, from that
I used to only speak Indian language
I was getting high grades, some things I really learned well, like reading
and then I just can't figure out why they're asking me this question
again I'm walking and they don't know it
"she wasn't studying, she doesn't know anything, that one"
they didn't know that as for me, I had been studying at home
"she doesn't know anything," they said, "the work will be too hard for her"
some of (the stories) I don't remember. Coyote ...
Then my relative (now deceased) would always come, and then she found out about it after a while.