Grammar
Nouns with Locative inflection
| ᐊᔅᑐᑎᓐ |  |
astutin | a hat |
| ᐊᔅᑐᑎᓂᐦᒡ | |
astutinihch | in a hat |
In the above example, the word astutin bears a suffix -ihch, when we want to talk about a place / location. This is called the LOCATIVE suffix.
The locative suffix is -ihch.
| ᐸᔨᒌᔅ | |
payichiis | a pair of pants |
| ᐸᒌᓯᐦᒡ | |
payichiisihch | in a pair of pants |
| ᐙᔅᑳᐦᐄᑲᓐ | |
waaskaahiikan | a house |
| ᐙᔅᑳᐦᐄᑲᓂᐦᒡ | |
waaskaahiikanihch | in a house |
For humans, the locative suffix is -inaahch, or for Coastal dialects, -iyiyuu, which means ‘amongst, in’.
| ᐄᓅ | |
iinuu | a person (aboriginal) |
| ᐄᓃᓈᐦᒡ | |
iiniinaahch | in the aboriginal community |
| ᐌᒥᔥᑎᑰᓰᐤ | wemishtikuusiiu | a white person | |
| ᐌᒥᔥᑎᑰᓰᓈᐦᒡ | wemishtikuusiinaahch | amongst the white people |
Related Topics :
See Paradigm Tables and Stem Shapes for more examples of how various nouns inflect for number, gender, obviative and locative.