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Chickasaw
Alternative forms
Etymology
Compare Choctaw chokma, Alabama chookma.
Pronunciation
Verb
chokma
- (active voice, intransitive) to act good
- (stative, intransitive) to be good
- (stative, transitive, with a role or profession as nominal object) to be a good
Osaapaꞌ toksaliꞌ chichokma.- You are a good farmer.
Inflection
Class I Verb Subjects (Active)
| Verbs beginning with a consonant.
|
Singular |
Plural |
Inclusive Tri-Plural
|
| 1st-person (I, we)
|
chokmali
chokma-li |
iichokma / iliichokma / liichokma
ii-chokma / ilii-chokma / lii-chokma |
iloochokma
iloo-chokma
|
| 2nd-person (you, you all)
|
ishchokma
ish-chokma |
hashchokma
hash-chokma
|
| 3rd-person (he, she, it, they)
|
chokma |
(hoo)chokma
(hoo-)chokma
|
Class II Verb Subjects (Stative)
| Verbs beginning with a consonant.
|
Singular |
Plural |
Inclusive Tri-Plural
|
| 1st-person (I, we)
|
sachokma
sa-chokma |
pochokma
po-chokma |
hapochokma
hapo-chokma
|
| 2nd-person (you, you all)
|
chichokma
chi-chokma |
hachichokma
hachi-chokma
|
| 3rd-person (he, she, it, they)
|
chokma |
(hoo)chokma
(hoo-)chokma
|
Derived terms
Adverb
chokma (auxiliary)
- (following another verb) really, good and, well
- Sachaaha chokma. ― I'm really tall.
Interjection
Chokma!
- Hello!
- Good!
- Excellent!