"Shimá magí bił yáʼátʼééh."

Translation: My mother likes monkeys.

[AnnikaRoge]

It takes "my mom" but not "my mother"

[Naomi314402]

Y can't i just write mom huh

[liamok_gvel]

why bił (not bee)?

[VioletaVeer]

I understood bee = she / he / it and bił = with her/ him / it

bił (with her) + yá‘át‘ééh (is good): (it) is good with her -> she likes it

[Greg22bg]

actually

bí -> he, her, it is

bee -> with/by means of him, her, it

bił -> with him, her/in his, her company

[sammyjo1111]

ya'at'eeh'
is bit reflective part of verb? or a postposition of monkey?
ahh'hee.
so, bi is 3rd person + with = bee, and bit?

[Greg22bg]

Waiting for a native or for a person who really has deep knowledge to shed some light, I'd like to point out two things:

First of all I hope you know that the letter in bił is not the letter T but the Navajo letter Ł

Bił is the contraction of bi + ił which (from what I've read) mainly means with but in the sense of in the company of (not by means of which is the meaning of ee) But then again, I guess like any pre-/postposition in any language it can change the meaning depending on which verb it goes with (ha-ha).

[jtaylor162]

"Mom likes the monkey" rejected. Really?? (reported 6/30/2021)

[sammyjo1111]

it bit attached to the verb like?

[sammyjo1111]

my mother likes monkies. sp of monkeys...grr.