Describing your routine
Dialog 1
Te'si-gisg'g, tugwiei. |
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Every morning, I wake up. | |
N'npoqoneg elisin. |
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I am lying in my bed. | |
Toqo-jiw men'ja'si. |
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Then I get up. | |
Toqo-jiw gesispa'lsi. |
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Then I wash myself. | |
Toqo-jiw geg'na'si. |
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Then I get dressed. |
Dialog 2
Gisgna'si, na tujiw wissugwai. |
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After I get dressed, then I cook for myself. | |
Mijji; ilaji ugjit natlugwen. Aq natlugwei. Eliei Listugujg. Na'te'l etllugwei. |
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I eat; I get ready to go to work. And I go to work. I go to Listuguj. There is where I work. | |
Toqo-jiw pegisin ta'n etllugwei. |
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Then I arrive where I work. | |
Toqo-jiw poqtlugwei. |
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Then I start to work. | |
Ta'n tujiw gispnei na atlasmi. |
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When I get tired, then I rest. | |
Toqo-jiw mijji. |
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Then I eat. | |
Toqo-jiw apatlugwei. |
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Then I go back to work. |
Dialog 3
Ta'n tujiw gaqlugwei, na enmiei. |
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When I finish work, then I go home. | |
Toqo-jiw pegisin nignaq. |
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Then I arrive home [lit. 'at our house']. | |
Toqo-jiw poqji-wissugwatigei. |
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Then I start to cook. | |
Toqo-jiw app mijji. |
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Then I eat again. | |
Ta'n tujiw g's'tal, na getugsiei. |
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When I have eaten, then I get sleepy. | |
Toqo-jiw nepa'ji'ji. |
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Then I take a nap. |
Dialog 4
Ta'n tujiw tugwiei, na 'ntiga'taqang naji-matu'lugwei. |
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When I wake up, then I go putter around in my garden. | |
Apaji-pisgwa'i, toqo engopa'si, aq egijjei. |
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I go back inside, then I sit down, and I read. | |
Glapis getugsiei. |
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Eventually I get sleepy. | |
Toqo-jiw gesispa'tuann nipitl. |
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Then I brush (lit. 'clean') my teeth. | |
Toqo-jiw naji-npai. |
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Then I go to sleep. | |
Toqo-jiw nepai. |
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Then I sleep. |