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<\/a>Cree Verb Inflection<\/h1>\r\n
Observation<\/caption>\r\n
\u14c2\u1456\u1431\u144e\u14f0\u14d0<\/td>\r\n\u00a0<\/td>\r\nnitaapitisiin<\/td>\r\nI work, I am working<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>
\u148b\u148c\u1426 \u140b\u1431\u144e\u14f0\u1426\u1456\u146f\u1431\u14d0<\/td>\r\n\u00a0<\/td>\r\nchichiih aapitisiihtaakupin<\/td>\r\nYou must have worked<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>
\u140b\u1431\u144e\u14f0\u152e\u14c8<\/td>\r\n\u00a0<\/td>\r\naapitisiiyaanaa<\/td>\r\nWhen and if I work<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>
\u140b\u1431\u144e\u14f0\u1456\u1424<\/td>\r\n\u00a0<\/td>\r\naapitisiitaau<\/td>\r\nLet’s work!<\/td>\r\n<\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>

These examples are only a few of the many many forms a Cree verb can take. There are hundreds of verb endings (suffixes) in Cree, encoding a large amount of information about who does what to whom, when and how while there are only a few of these in English: talk\/ talks\/ talked\/ talking; take\/ takes\/taken\/ taking (-s, -ed, -en, -ing<\/span>). These are called verb inflections.<\/p>\r\n

A verb can vary according to which person<\/a> is involved, and when and how things are happening. The variation in person is called person inflection<\/a>, and the variation about when and how is grouped in a set of forms called a conjugation or a paradigm.<\/p>\r\n

Conjugations are grouped into orders<\/a>. There are three orders: Independent<\/a>, Conjunct<\/a>, Imperative<\/a>. For convenience, conjugations used across the Cree-Innu language family have each been given a number<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n

The stem<\/a> of a verb determines the shape of a conjugation. The suffixes<\/a> or endings will not look the same on all verbs.<\/p>

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