be

pastəducid

noun

Lushootseed

1. (the copula, a verb indicating that two nouns are equivalent)

   • spaʔc tiʔiɫ.

   That is a bear.

usage notes: There is no Lushootseed word corresponding to the English verb "to be," whose conjugations include, am, are, is, was, were and been.

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sources

• 1995, Thom Hess and Vi [taqʷšəblu] Hilbert, Lushootseed: The language of the Skagit Nisqually, and other tribes of Puget Sound, an Introduction: Book I, Lushootseed Press, chapter 1