Dictionary Entry [entry ID #1625] (related entries)
Phrases and expressions
dó:ng' (or do'óng, dó'n, do'n, do'on) • really, truly, indeed, for sure, it is so, honestly • emphatic particle
Note: Usually spoken with high pitch. Adds emphasis, contrast.
- ts'isehłwe:n-dó:ng' he killed it for sure, without a doubt [literally, he killed it-indeed]
- de:-q'i-dó:ng' in this very way [literally, this-way-indeed]
- k'iłuxun dó:ng' me:diwhdin deer meat - really (as opposed to some other kind of meat) - I want
Audio (click to listen)
- 'isehłwe:n do:ng'
he killed it indeed (spoken by Verdena Parker)
- de:qi' don'
in this very way (spoken by Verdena Parker)
- de:qi' don' 'ahdiyaw
it happened this way (spoken by Verdena Parker)
- do'o:n
it is (spoken by Verdena Parker)
- do:ng'
indeed (spoken by Verdena Parker)
- hay do'ong'
indeed (spoken by Verdena Parker)
- whe: do:ng'
it's me! (spoken by Verdena Parker)
- yo:w do:ng'
it was him (her)! (spoken by Verdena Parker)
- hay de:di do'ong
this right here (spoken by Verdena Parker)
- hay do'ong'
it is (spoken by Verdena Parker)
- ming do'ong
that (animal) (spoken by Verdena Parker)
- ming do:ng' yik'iwinya'n
him (an animal), he ate it (spoken by Verdena Parker)
Examples from texts
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I have a really big white cat living with me.
haya:ł hay ch'ide'iłma:s, haya:ł yehye'iwhiwh-xwe: xowh do'n 'a:ch'o'one' do: xohsle'-te hay 'a:xołchwing-ne'in
he always flushes it, it sucks it in, he always thinks the smell will be no more
haya:ł na:ne'iwhda:wh ch'iwhine:'ił'e'n ting haya:ł hayi q'in' tin ch'ine:'ił'e'n 'a:ch'o:'ine' xowh do'n
when I return home, he keeps staring at me, and then also he stares at that (phone) and I guess that he's thinking
he thinks, it could be, it's not known for sure (what he's thinking) (I guess that's what he thinks)
it's going to play, but then I guess he goes ahead and listens to it anyway
she got the job, there she worked, I know (from her telling) she was watching after a child.
then, okay she said, then he started running ahead of her up to the door
hayah na'wa: hay kile:xich mita' haya:ł 'a'de:ne' q'ut 'e'n do'n ye'ohdił digyung na:de:'ohłya' haya:ł te:soh'ing'
his father is walking around there then he said it's OK, come on in, stand here and you watch
for that reason, she wouldn't eat very much, and then I guess
after awhile she left, the boy is getting pretty big, [then I guess]
it could be three years or four years she looked after that boy
hayah-din do'n xo'ye: 'a:'udyaw haya:ł hay na'widahł-din na'te'ida:wh chwola'-din nay'iłxa'-mił na:wilwił-ding
at that time something bad happened to her, when she was going home, she returns back on the fifth day in the evening (Friday night)
that's the end of the story, after that she didn't work
a long time ago
at that time, I was born
"she knows a lot of things, that one"
after a while they [the old people] said ...
and then they told me, "you'll get on the bus (every day), and then you'll go off"
it must have been fourth grade
what's wrong with you, your belly looks big!
"as for her, she eats a lot, really well"
"that's why her belly has gotten (that way)"
and then, I said "no, as for me ...
I said "I feel really sick all of a sudden" and then
"me, I will pay for it all"
they (my mother and my uncle) ran over to him, and I guess they told him
they said to me, "you throw up in there," and then, "okay!"
I said "one, two, three" and that's the only (thing) I remember, and then I guess I went to sleep
"as for right now, I feel really good"
"q'ut 'e:ng' do:ng' nino'k'int'a:ts' hay-de:di 'aht'ing mindaxe' 'aht'ing niwhong-xw 'a:niwehst'e'" haya:ł
The surgery already done! right now it's all finished, everything looks good
"why is this thing sitting here?" I said
they said, "we're going to cut it off of you (the bandage)"
"right now, we're doing this to you, because you're going to leave"
the very next day they said, "tomorrow you're going to go home."
okay then, so I went home
after a while they said, "all right ..."
"she can eat whatever she wants now"
"okay, time for school to let out"
"why did you come today, only one day left? today everybody leaves."
haya:ł 'a:den' hay do:ng' 'a:whił-ch'ide:ne' "hay 'a:k'iwilaw-ya:ne:dil'e:n-ding (dimixung) miningxa't'e:n' ch'ino:ya'-ne'"
and then I said, "it was him, the principal (boss of the school), that told me (to come)"
"don't bother her, as for her, she came today ...
"she's not going to go to the next one, she's going to stay in this one (class) again"
"it looks like she passed!" and they all laughed, and they said,
"as for her, when we come back again (next year), they're going to move her back"
"two boys are going to come in and you will go with them"
I said "okay," and then the boys came in
"as for her, she's not going to pass the 8th grade"
I guess those (girls), they really started to like him
a long long time ago
haya:ł ch'iningyay ch'ixoniłte:n 'a'de:ne' "nin do'n yima:nek'iwungxoya:n hay-de:di miningxat'e:n' sile'n-te 'aht'ing-xw-'unt'e"
and then (the creator's helper) came, the creator brought him, and he (the creator) told him, "as for you, old man from across the sea, you will become the boss of everything here"
and so "okay" he said
and then (the creator) told his helper, "right here there's going to be all kinds of animals coming out."
and then "okay" he said
and even mountain lion, they all built houses
and then after a while he said "as for right now, all ...
"No," I always say, "as for me, I'm afraid of that kind of thing."
"OK then," I thought, then I sat down in back.
Then I came back out, and he said, "Come on over here and get up (on the motorcycle)."
And then, "It's not hard (to run this thing), you sit up here," and then ...
"Don't be afraid of it," he said, "you sit up here."
"Shift it into first," then I shifted there.
haya:ł midiłwa: xolisji te:sinya:-tehł-de' do'n ta:q'i-ding yehna:k'iwingqot-te: haya:ł hayi-xw 'a:whlah
and then, after that, [he said] "If you're going to go faster, put it into third gear," and then I did that.
"You learned really fast," he told me, "how to drive it!"
"Right here is the brake," he told me - he told all this to me.
"OK, now you can go ride around!"
...a young lady comes out, then she says, I'm going to sit up there behind you, okay?
[Then I say], "OK," then she climbs on behind me, and then...
... I guess because of the wind. Then we always return back after awhile to the house ...