APWAD - A Potawatomi Word a Day

Wiwkwan - Hat

Deswiwkwan                  Cap

Ni pi je i nwiwkwan?         Where is my hat?

Ode se nwiwkwan             Here is my hat

Gisken i gwiwkwan            Take off your hat

Giskemok ni gwiwkwanen   (all of you) Take off your hats

Shkemot - Bag, purse, sack

Ni pi je i shkemot?                    Where is that bag?

Ni pi je i nshkemot?                  Where is my bag?

Ni pi je i gshkemot?                  Where is your bag?

Ode se nshkemot                     Here is my bag.

Nin ma i shkemot                     That is my bag.

Biskewagen - Coat or shirt

Nin ma ode biskewagen                  This is my coat

Ni pi je i nbiskewagen?                    Where is my coat?

Ode se nbiskewagen                       Here is my coat

Bisken i biskewagen                        Put that coat on

Gisken i gbiskwagen                        Take off your coat

Match words:

Bmades           To be alive

Ni pi je             Where

Wdemé            To smoke

Ni je pi             When

Ngoji                Somewhere

Translations:

Mno bmades ne?              Are you in good health?

Nwi wdema ngoji              I will smoke somewhere

Can you match these words?

Bmades                             Where

Ni pi je                               When

Wdemé                              To be alive

Ni je pi                               Somewhere

Ngoji                                 To smoke

Can you translate the following?

Nwi wdema ngoji

Mno bmades ne?

Bmades - To live, be alive, experience life

Mno bmadesewen                  Health, good life, good living

Mno bmades ne?                   Are you in good health, living well?

Éhe, mno bmades                  Yes, I am in good health, living well

Bemadset                              One who is alive

Bemadsejek                           Those who are alive

Wdemé - To smoke

Nwi wdema                       I will smoke

Nwi wdema zagech            I will smoke

Zagech nwi zhya éwi wdeméyan                I will go outside and smoke

Jo nwi wdemasi                  I will not smoke

Gégo wdemaken!               Don’t smoke!

Gégo wdemakék!               (you all) Don’t smoke!

Ngoji - Somewhere

Ngoji pi                                    Sometime

Nwi mikchéwi wabek ngoji           I will work somewhere tomorrow

Nwi pamsé ngoji                        I will go for a walk somewhere

Ggi zhya ne ngoji?                     Did you go somewhere?

Gnebech gwi kigdomen ngoji       Perhaps we will speak somewhere

Ni je pi - When?

Ni je pi ga zhyayen?                           When did you go?

Ni je pi wa zhyayen?                           When will you go?

Ni je pi wa majiyen?                            When will you leave?

Ni je pi ga majiyen?                             When did you leave?

Ni je pi wa byayen?                             When will you come?

Ni je pi ga byayen?                              When did you come?

Ni pi je - Where?

Ni pi je ézhyayen?                       Where are you going?

Ni pi je ga zhyayen?                    Where did you go?

Ni pi je wa zhyayen?                    Where will you go?

Ni pi je ndo kyan?                        Where is my pet?

Ni pi je i dabyan?                         Where is that car?