"My grandfather has a fish."
Translation:Shicheii łóóʼ bee hólǫ́.
November 11, 2018
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jtaylor162
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Since the English does not specify that this grandfather is PATERNAL, presumably DL should also accept "Shinálí łóóʼ bee hólǫ́," right? I understand shinálí is pretty vague, counting paternal grandfather, paternal grandmother, and paternal aunts/uncles, but used alone it can be taken to mean any of these. Maybe we could specify it's a male by saying "Shinálí hastiin łóóʼ bee hólǫ́", for example?? Of course, DL may be encouraging the default assumption that grandparents are MATERNAL by default, unless otherwise specified, since these are the ones who are the real relatives of the speaker in a matrilineal society...
Tannuska
1382
Shicheii łóóʼ bee hólǫ́. Shima' X bee hólǫ́. But why is Shi X hólǫ́, and Shizheʼe' bee X? not bee hólǫ́?