Use the Skwxú7mesh numbers to increase your vocabulary by 26 words!

 

A suffix is a letter or a group of letters added to the end of a word to make a new word. We will see how this works using the Skwxwú7mesh numbers, so let’s review them:

 

  1  –  nch’u7

  2  –  án̓us

  3  –  chánat

  4  –  xa7útsen

  5  –  tsíyichis

  6  –  t’ak’ach

  7  –  t’akw’usách

  8  –  tkach

  9  –  ts’es

10  –  úpen

 

We can talk about the time in Skwxwú7mesh by simply adding the suffix k to the end of each number:

 

nch’u7ḵ

án̓usḵ

chánatḵ

x̱a7útsenḵ

Another example is the suffix iwa which means tree:

 

 

nchíwa

án̓usiwa

chanatíwa

 

Want to learn more? Open this link for a full explanation of using numbers with suffixes, and increase your Skwxwú7mesh vocabulary by 26 words!

 

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