A List of Common Action Verbs…
- Zhechké To Do
- Giwé To Go Home
- Giwsé To Hunt
- Ktegé To plant (h/s plants)
- Bidgé To Enter
- Zagjesé To Go Outside
- Mnekwé To Drink
- Wanké To Dig
- Wénkwéngé To Drive
- Zgabyenge To steer, to drive
- Binjegé To Clean
- Gwdemojgé To Fish
- Déwé’gé To Drum
- Gemo To sing (h/s sings)
- Bmadgé To Swim
- Minké To Gather Berries
- Biskonyé To Get Dressed
- Giskonyé To get undressed
- Kewabnojé To watch children (babysitting)
- Gzhadawso Another babysitting
- Migadi To Fight
- Mikchéwi To Work
- Anoki To work for hire
- Maji To Leave/Go
- Bsegwi To Get Up/Rise
- Nim’edi To Dance
- Chikaso To Play
- Bkeso To Bathe/to swim (h/s bathes0
- Kedo To Say
- Neshnabémo To Speak Indian Language
- Zhya/zhyé To Go
- Bya/byé To Come/Arrive
- Wdema To Smoke
- Wdemé Another way to say to smoke
- Wisne To Eat
- Jibtebe To Sit
- Nibwe To Stand
- Bose To Ride
- Ye To be in a certain place
- Yawe State of being (h/s is)
- Mzhena To seize, lay hold of
- Mawdo To gather
- Pkebna To pick, to reach up
- Dapna To pick, to reach down
- Dkobjegé To close a circle, to end things
- Débnek Reach for s.t.
- Bgedna to put down s.t., to lay s.t. down
- Mdomneké To bead
- Gokpenagé To make baskets
- Zisbakdoké To make sugar
- Msenagseké To go to the movies, to make pictures
- Wjanda To cook
- Gigéno To cook
- Bmose To walk
- Bmepto To run
- Tkemsé To cross over
- Bebamsé To walk around, to walk about
- Zhonyamké To have money
- Odanké To shop, to go to town
- Msenegé to charge things, as in credit
- We’e, We’uh To loan, to give credit
- Dbegé To pay s.t.
- Dawé To buy and sell
- Gishnena To buy as in commercial buying
- Gishpnedo To buy, to shop
- Kigdo To speak, talk
- Néndek To think a certain way
- Nénmat To think a certain way about s.o.
- Néndem To think
- Nagdewénmat To think of s.o.
- Nagdewéndek To think of s.t.
- Gchenénmat To think a lot of s.o.
- Mba/mbé To sleep
- Nwéshmo To rest
- Ensestek To understand
- Enseto To reason
- Nbwaka To reason
- Bsegwi To rise
- Doki To awake
- Bkezo To bathe, shower
- Gzingé To wash up
- Binchegé To clean
- Binakchegé To clean
- Wawida To read
- Wawijgé To read
- Wab To see
- Wabma To see s.o.
- Wabdan To see s.t.
- Mina To give
- Mingo To receive
- Shema To feed
- Shemgo To be fed
- Gzinwnagé To wash dishes
- Bgedna To allow s.o. to do s.t.
- Bgednon To allow s.t.
- Binakwe’o To comb hair
- Gziyabde’o To brush teeth
- Mneschegé To put things in order, housework
- Doma To call s.o.
- Gishkmé to chew tobacco or plug tobacco
- Skowé to spit as in saliva
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