Gimiwan

rain

VerbInanimateIntransitiveVII

Practice in conversation →

Part of speech: Verb
Animacy: inanimate
Transitivity: intransitive
Verb class: VII

Forms (7)

A Form (independent)

Singular
Pluralderiveddetails →
Negative Singulardetails →In running text the course writes this with the negative particle "Gaawiin" before it.
Negative Pluralderiveddetails →In running text the course writes this with the negative particle "Gaawiin" before it.

B Form (dependent)

Singular & Pluraldetails →
Negative Singular & Pluraldetails →

Documented tense & other forms

These exact spellings appear in the course materials as their own entries.

Rows marked derived are built by the published chart's verified rule for this stem shape — the rule and the stem are documented; those exact spellings were not written out in the course materials. Hover, tap or focus a form to see its pieces. The full paradigm lives on the VII grammar page.

Examples

It will rain.

From the coursefull entry →

It could rain.

From the coursefull entry →

, gichi-gimiwan.

If the weather is nasty, it rains hard.

From the coursefull entry →

Is it raining?

From the coursefull entry →

da-biinasinoon waakaa'igan .

The house shall not clean if it rains.

From the courseuses the documented form gimiwangfull entry →

It is not raining.

From the courseuses the A Form Negative Singular →full entry →

Gimiwan

Examples

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