sentence building
This is the usual Lakota sentence order.
What is subject-object-verb?
This Lakota color word means “red.”
What is šá?
This number is waŋží.
What is one?
This number is wikčémna.
What is ten?
This food is called tȟáspaŋ.
What is an apple?
This part of a sentence tells who or what performs the action.
What is the subject?
his Lakota color word means “yellow.”
What is zí?
Give the Lakota word for the number five.
What is záptaŋ?
Translate wikčémna nuŋpá into English.
What is twenty?
Give the Lakota word for “banana.”
What is zíškopela?
This part describes an action, state, or occurrence.
What is the verb?
This Lakota color word means “white.”
What is ská?
This number is napčíyuŋka.
What is nine?
When forming numbers above twenty, this word means “exceeding” or “more.”
What is sáŋm?
Wágmušpaŋšni is this fruit.
What is a watermelon?
This part receives the action of the verb.
What is the object?
This Lakota color word means “green.”
What is tȟózi?
This number is akeyámni.
What is thirteen?
Translate wikčémna yámni sáŋm tópa into English.
What is thirty-four?
Name both foods: wagmíza and bló.
What are corn and potato?
Adjectives can describe these three parts of a Lakota sentence.
What are the subject, object, and verb?
Name the Lakota words for “gray” and “pink.”
What are ȟóta and šásaŋ?
Give the Lakota word for the number eighteen.
What is akešágloǧaŋ?
Say the number sixty-seven in Lakota.
What is wikčémna šákpe sáŋm šákowiŋ?
Name both foods: asáŋpi súta and mnikápȟopapi.
What are cheese and soda/pop?