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.

Observation
ᒥᓯᓂᐦᐧᐋᐤ ᐅᑎᐧᐋᔑᔒᒻᐦ ᓘᓰ Click here to hear this word misinihwaau utiwaashishiimh Luci Luci is enrolling her child
ᒋᔅᐱᐦᐧᐋᐤ ᐧᐋᐦᑯᐹᓂᑮᒃᐦ ᐁᓪᓰ Click here to hear this word chispihwaau waahkupaanikiikh Elsie Elsie is mixing fish-egg pancakes
ᐧᐋᐹᔥᑎᒫᐤ ᐅᒨᓲᔮᓂᒻᐦ ᒫᕐᑭᕇᑦ Click here to hear this word 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)