haajin

Etymology

ha- (“up out”) + -yi- (modal) + -Ø- (3rd person subject prefix) + -d- (classifier) + -zhin (neuter perfective stem of root -ZHĮ́Į́ʼ, “to be black”).

Verb

haajin

  1. there is a black outcropping or patch of it (on the mountainside)
    Dził bąąh łeezh łizhiní haajin. ― There is a patch of black soil on the mountainside.

Usage notes

This verb is limited to expression in the third person.

This is a neuter verb that uses only the perfective stem.

Conjugation

Paradigm: Neuter perfective (yi), third person only, with da-shift.

PERFECTIVE singular plural dist. plural
3rd person haajin hadaashjin
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