Examples

• ʔímeʔ • to drink
• lémehuyé:slegi • I refused to drink.
• ʔímeʔlel • to drink a little
• ʔímeʔlelé:sigi • He never did drink.
• mímeʔlelhé:šigi • Do you drink a little?
• ʔitdímeʔ • cup

   
• lémeʔi • I'm drinking

   
• huŋatehe:š mimeʔi • what are you drinking?
• mémeʔi • They're drinking.
• léšiši lémeʔšiyášaʔi • We (du. inc.) are going to drink.
• mímeʔgabigi • You're going to drink.
• míši mímehé:ši • Are you (du.) drinking?
• gémeʔ • drink!
• gémaha • make him drink!
• gémaʔaš diwgayáyhi • Drink, and I'll talk.
• lémaʔášaʔé:shui • we (pl. inc.) aren't going to drink
• lémehuyášaʔi • we (pl. inc.) are going to drink
• lémaʔašaʔé:si • I'm not going to drink
• lémaʔášaʔi • I'm going to drink
• mímehé:šigi • do you drink?
• lémeʔšiyi • we (du. incl.) are drinking
• lémeʔšiyášaʔi • we (du. inc.) are going to drink
• lemehé:šhuyi • are we drinking?
• léšiši lémeše • are we (du. inc.) drinking?
• lémehulew • Let's all drink.
• lémešeʔ • let's (du. inc.) drink
• lémeʔášaʔé:si • I'm not going to drink.
• lémeʔé:sášaʔi • I'm not going to drink.
• lémehuyé:šlagi • We didn't drink it.
• lémedúweʔé:slagi • I didn't want to drink
• lémedúweʔé:si • I don't want to drink.
• lémehé:šugabigi • Are we going to drink?
• mimeʔé:sgabigi • Don't drink (in the future)!
• mímeʔ • you drink
• hádigiʔé:š mímeʔ ʔášaʔi • are you going to drink that?
• t'ímeʔ deugá:guyé:s Léhuyi • We (all) know how to drink (i.e. whiskey).
• ʔímeʔé:si ʔuŋat'idé:s Léhuyi • if we don't drink, we don't say anything
• há:bi gibišge dewdíʔiš ʔímeʔi • the tree drinks water

   
• ʔáʔaš wéwšudi lémeʔi • It cools down a bit, then I drink it