Dictionary Entry [entry ID #1831] (related entries)
'iwhyo' • I like it • verb (theme: O-(we:s)-l-yo') [imperfective, 1sg subject, inanimate object] • Semantic domain: emotions
- xowhyo' I like him, her [imperfective, 1sg subject, animate object]
- ch'ilyo' he or she likes it [imperfective, animate subject, inanimate object]
- ch'ixolyo' he or she likes him, her [imperfective, animate subject, animate object]
- łidilyo' we like one another [imperfective, 1pl subject, reciprocal object]
- ch'iłilyo' they like one another [imperfective, animate subject, reciprocal object]
- wehsyo' (or we:syo') I started to like it [perfective, 1sg subject, inanimate object]
- do: we:syo' I didn't like it [perfective, 1sg subject, inanimate object]
- ch'ixowehsyo' he or she started to like him, her [perfective, animate subject, animate object]
- we:silyo'-te you will like it [future tense, perfective, 2sg subject, inanimate object]
- ch'i'ilyo' she always liked it [customary, animate subject, inanimate object]
Audio (click to listen)
- xo'ch xo-ding we:syo'
something you like more and more (spoken by Verdena Parker)
- xo'ch xo-ding xowe:syo'
I like her more and more (spoken by Verdena Parker)
- xong-'e:ng' do: ch'iwehsyo'
as for him, he didn't like it (spoken by Verdena Parker)
Examples from texts
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he goes to the bathroom in there, then it smells bad and he doesn't like it, he runs away from it
do: ch'ilyo' sile'n hay na:mitł'a'-ding haya:ł ch'in 'e'n tin niwho:n-ne'in hayi de:-ch'in ta'na:n [ya:w] ya'iwhiwh miq'it-xw 'aht'in-ding
she never liked it no more, then it was no longer really good because he would suck up water (and spray it) all over the top
I was really enjoying watching them and I really liked it, and then I realized that my mother ...
"nobody else will like you"
I guess those (girls), they really started to like him
...he rides to the store on it, and then he always tells me, "You'll like it a lot."
Then, I didn't like that, "Take me home quickly," I said, "back to the house."
...it drives around, we would go drive around down by the river sometimes, and then she always liked that, then...
jahda: ch'ingkya:w na:d-e:-xw na:tł'a' na:ła'-q'i-ch'in' ye: no:'o:ltsil 'e'iliw haya:ł na:k'ide'iwis-te: ye: 'e'iliw haya:ł jahda:-din do: 'iwhyo' 'a:dił na'xołte: hayi-'e'n
...she's too big, it's like she leans over in the wrong way around the back [of the motorcycle], then it seems like it's going to fall over, and then I don't like to take her with me very much.