TENAS WAWA--The Chinook Jargon Voice Talk Box

Ordinal Numbers

When we count ordinal numbers we
add "i"after ikt and mokst.

ikt + i = ikti = first
mokst + i = moksti = second

Naika nanitch maika ikti!
  Me see you first!
Okoke sun November moksti sun.
Today is November second.
When we count ordinal numbers over two,
we put cardinal number after object.
  • klone = three
  • lakit = four
  • tahtlum = ten
  • tahtlum pe ikt = ten and one
  • tahtlum pe mokst = ten and two
  • mokst tahtkum = twenty
  • mokst tahtlum pe kwinnum =
       twenty and five
  • tukamonuk = hundred
Nesaika mitlite kopa century mokst tahtlum.
  We live in century twenty.
Naika canim yaka canim lakit kenkiam.
Me canoe him canoe four on the right.

(Copyright © 1991 by Duane Pasco)


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