Dictionary Entry [entry ID #3340] (related entries)
me:diwhdin • I want it, crave it, want to have or do it • verb (theme: P-e:=di-(w)-din/din') [imperfective, 1sg subject, inanimate oblique] • Semantic domain: emotions
- me'de:din he wants it [imperfective, animate subject, inanimate oblique]
- me'de:nde'n he got to want it [perfective, animate subject, inanimate oblique]
- me:dindin-'ung do you want it?
- me:diwhdin-na:tiwhda:wh I want to go home
Audio (click to listen)
- me'de:din-'a't'e:n
he wants to do it (spoken by Verdena Parker)
Examples from texts
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haya:ł 'a:ya:xołch'ide:ne' "[do:-me:ya'-do:n'] de:-nohq'it-xw-mił do:-me'de:din digyung de:sohłts'e'
And then he told them: "He who is above us doesn't want you to live here (in Blue Lake).
And then the leader told them: "The Creator doesn't want you to live here.
I never raised my hand, I didn't want to raise my hand. I always thought ...
"we have to take her to Eureka to the doctor"
"I don't want surgery!" and then she laughed at me
"she can eat whatever she wants now"
"we really want you to come to school," and then
"there's drinking going on, so I don't want you to stay in here" she said
"if you tell, then I will say, 'she wanted to do this'"
I didn't want anybody doing bad things to them / IMPF!, ?
"hayi-xwe wha'ut sile'n-te dungwho'-ch'ing' do:-xoling xwa'ut 'iliw dungwho'-ch'ing' do:-xoling me'de:din"
"you got to become my wife, you're not going to be somebody else's wife, nobody not going to want you"