VTA (Verb Transitive Animate)
Transitive Animate Verbs (VTA) are verbs with two roles (transitive) filled by an animate subject and an animate object. Both the actor and the goal are animate.
ᒥᓯᓂᐦᐧᐋᐤ ᐅᑎᐧᐋᔑᔒᒻᐦ ᓘᓰ | misinihwaau utiwaashishiimh Luci | Luci is enrolling her child | |
ᒋᔅᐱᐦᐧᐋᐤ ᐧᐋᐦᑯᐹᓂᑮᒃᐦ ᐁᓪᓰ | chispihwaau waahkupaanikiikh Elsie | Elsie is mixing fish-egg pancakes | |
ᐧᐋᐹᔥᑎᒫᐤ ᐅᒨᓲᔮᓂᒻᐦ ᒫᕐᑭᕇᑦ | waapaashtimaau umuusuuyaanimh Marguerite | Marguerite let her moosehide blow away |
Link to Conjugation Tables
The selection of Person Prefix in TA verbs
The selection of Theme Suffix in TA verbs
Additional VTA verb classes (Double goals, Causatives, Inverse)