Example 75-149

Sii fiy kaakweemeekit oonhin.
Sii
3pl.poss
fiy
daughter
kaakwee-meeki-t
try-give-3
oonhin.
those
She tries to give her daughters (to someone).
Comment:
There are two roots of the verb 'to give'. Miy- is used in ditransitives, whereas meek- is used when the benefactive is implicit and unspecified.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Fleury 2007