How to use demonstrative pronouns in Navajo

How to use demonstrative pronouns in Navajo

You want to learn how to use demonstrative pronouns in Navajo? You've come to the right place! Scroll down and see the short Navajo lessons complete with useful examples. This house, that house... we make learning Navajo demonstrative pronouns easy for you.

Navajo demonstrative pronouns : this

Demonstrative pronouns are used with nouns to make them more specific. The English demonstrative pronoun 'this' is 'díí' in Navajo.

Examples

díí naaltsoos
this book
díí tsé
this stone
díí ashkii
this boy
díí bikʼi dah asdáhí
this chair
díí kin
this house
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Step 6 : Navajo demonstrative pronouns

Demonstrative pronouns are used to refer to specific objects and their locations. In English, this would be the words this and these to refer to objects which are near and that and those to refer to objects which are further away. Using the nouns naaltsoos, bikʼi dah asdáhí and dáádílkał (book, chair, door) which you learned in Step 3, learn to use the demonstrative pronouns with each of these nouns (this book, that chair, these doors). You can scroll to the top of this page to see a short lesson about Navajo demonstrative pronouns including useful examples. After you've learned to use the Navajo demonstrative pronouns with the nouns naaltsoos, bikʼi dah asdáhí and dáádílkał and the plural nouns naaltsoos, bik’i dah asdáhí and dáádílkał you can move on to Step 7 (Navajo adjectives).

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