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You entered the Burns dialect of Numu (Northern Paiute)

-zu, aff.

adverbial suffix

Other pronunciations

-so

Examples

  • Pisa iwasu nana'atazu tenikwehede hudziba teetsi'yu.
    It's a beautiful singer, that little bird (knows lots of different songs).
    (Spoken by Nepa Kennedy)
  • "Oo'no, 'Hayu usu e pia tenikwehe?' mii u tebinga, oonosu u nakapunni."
    "Then, 'How does she, your mother sing?' so ask it, and then listen to it."
    (Spoken by Nepa Kennedy)
  • Yaisi tiwau enesu u yadui tiwau ume.
    Then (I) talked to it some more again.
    (Spoken by Nepa Kennedy)
  • Oo yaisi atasu tiwau su hudziba tiwau eniwene.
    And then again the bird was saying something different.
    (Spoken by Nepa Kennedy)
  • Oo'nosu hii unau su tenna una inakwa wenebodoti.
    And at that time those things out there, the antelope out there nearby were just standing around here and there.
    (Spoken by Nepa Kennedy)

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