Common Phrases in the Classroom
Cleaning Up:
• Biinchigen!
~ [You] Clean up!
• Biinchigeyok!
~ [Yous] Clean up!
• N’hinan gda-yahiiman!
~ [You] Put your things away!
• N’hinmoyok gda-yahiimwaan!
~ [Yous] Put your things away!
• Gaandnan neyaab gdesbiwin!
~ [You] Push in your chair!
• Gaandnamyok neyaab gdesbiwnimwaan!
Gaandnamyok neyaab gdesbiwnimwaan!
~ [Yous] Push in your chairs!
• Doopwining toon gmaznihgnan!
~ [You] Put your papers on the counter!
• Doopwining tooyok gmaznihganmiwaan!
Doopwining tooyok gmaznihganmiwaan!
~ [Yous] Put your papers on the counter!
• Ggii-gziibiigninjii na?
~ Did you wash your hands?
• Ggii-gziibiigninjiim na?
~ Did yous wash your hands?
• Gziijaanehon mnibdoon!
~ [You] Grab a tissue!
• Gziijaanehon mnibdooyok!
~ [Yous] Grab a tissue!
• Gziijaanehon toon webnigning!
~ [You] Put the tissue in the garbage!
• Gziijaanehnan tooyok webnigning!
Gziijaanehnan tooyok webnigning!
~ [Yous] Put the tissues in the garbage!
• Webnigning toon!
~ [You] Put it in the garbage!
• Webnigning tooyok!
~ [Yous] Put it in the garbage!
• Gziibiigninjiin!
~ [You] Wash your hands!
• Gziibiigninjiiyok!
~ [Yous] Wash your hands!
• Endzhi-gziibiignaagnenaanwang toon!
Endzhi-gziibiignaagnenaanwang toon!
~ [You] Put it in the sink!
• Endzhi-gziibiignaagnenaanwang tooyok!
Endzhi-gziibiignaagnenaanwang tooyok!
~ [Yous] Put it in the sink!
