Arapaho - Animate Verbs - Questions and Negations
To ask a question with
animate verbs, you add koo- just like with the
inanimate verbs. The verb gets shorter the same as before as well. And you drop
the endings on the verb just as before as well. In this case, its the suffixes which mean “I” “you” etc which get dropped.
However, they have to be “added back on” at the beginning of the question:
neniisí3ei-noo I
am working
koo-né-niisí3ei am
I working?
beníi3béé-n you
are cooking
koo-he-bíí3bee are you
cooking?
heneenéti-t she
is talking
koo-heenét is
she talking?
To make a sentence negative,
you add hoow- just like with inanimate verbs. Again, the verb shortens,
and again, the endings are dropped. As above, they are added back on at the
beginning:
néí-hoow-niisí3ei I’m not
working
héí-hoow-bíí3bee you’re not cooking
hoow-eenét she’s
not talking
1. you're not working
2. I'm not cooking
3. is she cooking?
4. are you working?
5. he's not cooking