{"id":231,"date":"2009-12-24T14:02:30","date_gmt":"2009-12-24T19:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.eastcree.org\/eastcree\/?page_id=231"},"modified":"2017-07-17T21:10:34","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T01:10:34","slug":"transitivity","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.eastcree.org\/cree\/en\/grammar\/northern-dialect\/verbs\/cree-verbs\/transitivity\/","title":{"rendered":"Transitivity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h1 class=\"pg-title\">Transitivity<\/h1>\r\n<table class=\"med-table\"><caption>Observation<\/caption>\r\n<tbody><tr><td class=\"bjcex\" style=\"text-align: right;\">\u1427\u140b\u1431\u1424\u166e<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 18px;\"><img class=\"clickable\" title=\"Click here to hear this word\" data-sound-url=\"\/snd\/grammar\/NVe\/NV-001.mp3\" src=\"\/img\/speak.gif\" alt=\"Click here to hear this word\"><\/td>\r\n<td class=\"crex\">waapiu.<\/td>\r\n<td class=\"gloss\">She sees.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr><tr><td class=\"bjcex\" style=\"text-align: right;\">\u1427\u140b\u1431\u14ab\u1424\u166e<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 18px;\"><img class=\"clickable\" title=\"Click here to hear this word\" data-sound-url=\"\/snd\/grammar\/NVe\/NV-002.mp3\" src=\"\/img\/speak.gif\" alt=\"Click here to hear this word\"><\/td>\r\n<td class=\"crex\">waapimaau.<\/td>\r\n<td class=\"gloss\">She sees him.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><p>The verb <span class=\"bjct\">\u1427\u140b\u1431\u14ab\u1424<\/span> <span class=\"crt\">waapimaau<\/span> talks about two persons involved in two different roles: one who does the seeing (called &#8220;actor&#8221;) and one who is being seen (called &#8220;goal&#8221;). Such a verb with two roles is called a <strong>transitive<\/strong> verb. The verb <span class=\"bjct\">\u1427\u140b\u1431\u1424<\/span> <span class=\"crt\">waapiu<\/span>, on the other hand, only talks about one person involved in one role: the one who does the seeing. Nothing is said about what the person sees. A verb with only one role is called an <strong>intransitive<\/strong> verb.<\/p>\r\n<p>Where English uses the same verb form <em>see<\/em>, Cree uses different verb forms, depending on the number of roles played by the things and beings involved.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div id=\"cite\" style=\"z-index: 2000000; display: none; position: fixed; top: 0; right: 0; left: 0; bottom: 0;\">\r\n<div style=\"z-index: 2000000; position: fixed; background: rgba(0,0,0,0.5); top: 0; right: 0; left: 0; bottom: 0;\" onclick=\"document.getElementById('cite').style.display='none';\"><\/div>\r\n<div style=\"z-index: 5000000; position: relative; margin: 10% auto; width: 800px; min-height: 200px; max-height:600px; background-color: white; border-radius: 1em; padding: 1em 2em;\">\r\n\r\n<button class=\"closeButton close\" title=\"close\" style=\"float:right; max-height: 14px;\" onclick=\"document.getElementById('cite').style.display='none';\"><\/button>\r\n<table style=\"max-width: 100%;\"><tbody><tr><td style=\"font-weight: bold;\">APA:<\/td>\r\n<td> Junker, M.-O., Salt, L., &amp; MacKenzie, M. (2015). <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">East Cree Verbs (Northern Dialect).<\/span> [Revised and expanded from 2006 original edition] In The Interactive East Cree Reference Grammar. Retrieved from <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">[URL]<\/span><\/td>\r\n<\/tr><tr><td>\u00a0<\/td>\r\n<td>\u00a0<\/td>\r\n<\/tr><tr><td style=\"font-weight: bold;\">MLA:<\/td>\r\n<td> Marie-Odile Junker, Luci Salt and Marguerite MacKenzie. <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">East Cree Verbs (Northern Dialect).<\/span> [Revised and expanded from 2006 original edition] In The Interactive East Cree Reference Grammar. 2015. Web. <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">[date]<\/span><\/td>\r\n<\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><p style=\"font-size: 0.8em; padding-left:20px;\"> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">[URL]<\/span> = website address, beginning with \u201chttp:\/\/\u201d<br><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">[Date]<\/span> = the date you accessed the page, styled as follows: 13 Dec. 2015<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Transitivity Observation \u1427\u140b\u1431\u1424\u166e waapiu. She sees. \u1427\u140b\u1431\u14ab\u1424\u166e waapimaau. She sees him. The verb \u1427\u140b\u1431\u14ab\u1424 waapimaau talks about two persons involved in two different roles: one who does the seeing (called &#8220;actor&#8221;) and one who is being seen (called &#8220;goal&#8221;). Such a verb with two roles is called a transitive verb. 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