Ready for #ClaseDeNáhuatl?

Today I’ll talk a little about indefinite pronouns and conjunctions.

The conjunction is the voice that joins the parts of the speech. There are copulative conjunctions, ie linking speech. There are also trade-offs that disjoint or separate speech.

In Nahuatl the copulative conjunctions are: IHUAN and NOIHUAN. For example: TEH IHUAN NE means you and me.

AUH means ‘that’ or ‘and’, and serves to join two sentences of different meaning.
For example: CENCA TIMITZTLAZOHTLA, AUH INIC TICNELOTOCAZ in English reads I love you and long for you to believe …“

AUH also means ‘but’, and if used with reverence (or nickname) Tzin it turns into ‘yes’.
For example: AUHTZIN, TLAHTOANE! – Yes, sir!

Moreover, the trade-offs are: AZO, NOZO, AUHNOZO, which translated into ‘or’
For example: COZTIC NOZO IZTAC – yellow or white.
IN MIZTOTON AUHNOZO CHICHIMEH – cats or dogs.

Now to the indefinite pronouns, the pass to something like a list.

English	Náhuatl
Someone	aca
Whoever	zazonaquin
Nobody	amaca
Nothing	amitla
Something	itla
Everyone	cecen
Everyone	cecen aquin
Each	cece
Certain	melahuac
All	nochi
Little	tepitzin
No one	niance
The same	ye yehua
Much	mica
Any	aca
Some	acah
None	ayac
Anybody	zazonaquin
one	ce
both	inehuan
the one/other	in occe
when	quexquich
several	miactin
different	nepapan
various	cencenmotah
such	ye/yeh
many	miactin

To finish this #ClaseDeNáhuatl here are some useful phrases in Nahuatl daily life, or maybe not so useful but here they are:

• Tetlazohtlaliztli onca Canin, love onca teihyozotlaliztli – Where there is love, there is no suffering.
• Hueyi in Tocal – Our house is big.
• Ye ticochizqueh magnet – It is time to sleep.
• Ixquichca moztla – Tomorrow.
• Axcan tlachipahtica – Today we have a wonderful time.

And so ended the #ClaseDeNáhuatl of today.

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