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BRANCH 4: (questions and answers)

 

Here we will use what we learned in the previous exercises and combine plurals with numbers, animals, and people. These will be tools to answer each question. There are two ways of asking each question depending on what you are asking about.

 

 

Question 1

kehsəwak?
How many are there?

 

pesəko
1

nisəwak
2 of them

nlə̀wak
3 of them

yèwəwak
4 of them

nəwak
5 of them

nəkʷətαs kehsəwak
6 many of them

tαpawαs kehsəwak
7 many of them

nsὰsok kehsəwak
8 many of them

noli kehsəwak
9 many of them

mətala kehsəwak
10 many of them

 

  continue

 

 

May 18, 1605

George Weymouth makes landfall on Monhegan Island in Maine. With-in days he would kidnap five Penobscot Indians and take them to Europe.