Examples of Zenzontepec Chatino

‘The back of his clothes, he tore his clothes.’

‘The child is tearing the tortilla.’

‘We are going to go because the soursops are cracking because they already came loose.’

‘I did not eat eggs yesterday.’

‘Juan got poisoned because he ate pills.’

‘Juan ate too much pineapple and his mouth got raw (chafed).’

‘We eat it.’

‘Tomorrow those tortillas will be eaten, because there are many of those tortillas piled up.’

‘Juan did not skin the rabbit for it to be eaten.’

‘The bread got eaten.’

‘The girl ate the bread.’

‘They are splitting (food) and eating.’

‘The time has arrived that we eat.’

‘The kids are feeding tortillas to the dogs.’

‘The man coughed.’

‘The man made the woman cough.’

‘The man covered the child with the blanket.’

‘The cloud is covering the moon.’

‘We are going to cover up the corn so that the sun does not see it.’

‘He closed his eyes and walked out then.’

‘They planned on closing it off (the place).’

‘He closed off the one called the god of nature.’

‘The school was closed.’

‘The nurse's hair is covered up (with a cloth).’

‘My nose feels like it got plugged up.’

‘The child was covered up with the blanket.’

‘Fill the pot with water!’

‘The man tied the horse to the tree.’

‘The horse was tied to the tree.’

‘... and then he tied up the bull.’

‘They bandaged him in plaster.’

‘Juan tied up the dog.’

‘That one still had not been tied up.’

‘Once it has gotten strength and is getting stronger and we see it is rotting, then we pour water on it.’

‘They will pour the mezcal during the festival.’

‘Too bad for you guys, why did you plant (corn) there?’

‘She put salt in the broth.’

‘I will pour water on it even if not a lot.’

‘Juan poured water on the flowers.’

‘The girl gave the book to the teacher.’

‘The girl sent the book to the teacher.’

‘It is not as if we are already sending it out to other areas.’

‘You did not send me that money you owe me.’

‘Send them here.’

‘The man searched for the child.’

‘They (nonspecific) searched for the child.’

‘"I am going to go to look for him", he said.’

‘Let's look for someone who will kill that one (snake) and who will look for, you see, what we are going to do.’

‘We killed those with guns.’

‘The Mixtec came to kill the snake.’

‘The jaguar died, they say, and then that night the person died.’

‘Those who were churchwardens are dying.’

‘The man died.’

‘The snake died by stick.’

‘The girl began to cry because her father told her she was going to get a husband.’

‘Where did you get that?’

‘From my mother I got it.’

‘So that was gotten.’

‘Permission is gotten, so let's go now.’

‘The teacher's book was gotten.’

‘Then there it was that she found him.’

‘And it was that one that they wanted to copy, but it didn't appear./Lit: 'And it was that one they wanted to take out again, but it was not found.'’

‘The boy feared the man.’

‘"Look here!", he said.’

‘As it was nighttime and in the forest, therefore the person was afraid.’

‘The man frightened the boy.’

‘"Why does it scare you?", the sun asked his mother.’

‘They are going to bathe the saint and dress him.’

‘The girl washed the baby girl.’

‘She bathed the baby.’

‘Tomorrow they are going to grind it so that we can eat.’

‘I will take the quern. I'll carry it on my shoulder in the morning because you will grind. You will wash it. You will grind.’

‘It gets ground very fine and then one drinks just a small cup.’

‘And so it is that I knew that man.’

‘She is always thinking of you.’

‘He is always thinking.’

‘The child asked the man for money.’

‘They (nonspec.) asked the man for the money.’

‘At the age of eighteen it was that a person began asking for her (to marry).’

‘We wanted to try to do so, because they were asking us for it.’

‘We will not ask the people for it (money).’

‘Then I asked for the jugs.’

‘It is going to start boiling then, as if there were fire in it.’

‘Once it has stopped boiling, you see, it ends up still then.’

‘He boiled it.’

‘The boy sang.’

‘The child sang a song.’

‘Gathered together, they are singing.’

‘During the year, one goes to dance, one goes.’

‘She got him to dance.’

‘That is why the king's daughter laughed.’

‘"Whoever makes my daughter laugh", he said, "he will marry her", he said.’

‘Juan laughed at him.’

‘She went to stand there then, and then she screamed, they say, it is right there itself where she screamed.’

‘The parrots would begin to cry, friend, and thick they looked when gathered together there before (when they lifted off to fly).’

‘And the authorities call on us also.’

‘I am going to call him so that he comes here and listens.’

‘The man screamed at the girl.’

‘It is not the case that we played that way long ago.’

‘Where it is hidden it will be, then they will not throw rocks at it, because children play.’

‘We are going to mess with him and see where we end up.’

‘The other one, you see, he is sad.’

‘The man built the house with adobe.’

‘The house was built with grass.’

‘The book he is going to make for the village is like the one there was long before in the house of the church.’

‘He made himself mestizo (non-Chatino). They all turned mestizo.’

‘The woman was making what he was going to eat.’

‘"You are going to make a plow", he said.’

‘I did/made it with my machete.’

‘"Now he will see", he said, "he will meet the people that live here", he said.’

‘Grab herbal medicine, everything you know yourselves.’

‘We don't live far, right here lives a kid who sells them.’

‘And him, young one, where did he live?’

‘At that time I was born. There were already people here at that time.’

‘We built granaries where the ears of corn were put.’

‘Tomorrow Juan's corn will be planted.’

‘The boy hit the snake with the stick.’

‘My dreams about people hitting me with a stick are frightening me.’

‘The child touched the snake with the stick.’

‘They talk about it and we listen, but I never saw it, I never killed it, I never touched it.’

‘They (the jugs) get hidden there, because the children grab rocks and they have broken several (of the jugs).’

‘He is holding her arm.’

‘The child cut the bread with the knife.’

‘The bread was cut with the knife.’

‘They have cut the elephant's ear tree now.’

‘We used to cut the weeds and we would plant the corn.’

‘The man cut himself with his machete (by accident).’

‘He got cut in two places on his hand.’

‘Juan is cutting the chicken's neck so that it can be cooked.’

‘"Cook this liver", they told their mother, "so that we may eat."’

‘They are reclaiming the land that we took (from them).’

‘I will take (her) from him.’

‘This one takes away their job we say.’

‘Juan does not want to shuck the corn.’

‘The child showed me a wilted leaf.’

‘The book was shown to the teacher.’

‘She teaches him English.’

‘I will teach you Zapotec.’

‘I will show the girls to my son.’

‘"That drunk there did this to you", he said, and they threw him in the jail.’

‘"I am going to throw you in the fire, you'll see, you little one, because you insult me", said the fox to the crab.’

‘They can grab rocks and throw them wherever.’

‘The child threw the rock through the window.’

‘Juan does not blink anymore because his eye hurts.’

‘The boy ran on the ground.’

‘He made the child run.’

‘He went running because he went late.’

‘Do not do that, that standing there and hugging the logs where the support posts are.’

‘I think it would be good to hug her.’