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ondaabasan vti

smoke it (for preservation)

Paired with: ondaabas vta ; ondaabaswi vta



nindoondaabasaan 1s - 0s ind; odoondaabasaan 3s - 0s ind; ondaabasang 3s - 0 conj; wendaabsang 3s - 0 ch-conj; ondaabasan 2s - 0 ind; Stem: /ondaabas-/

Ningwaagonenan moozonagizh gaa-gii'-ondaabasaman.

Put the moose sausage you smoked in the snow (to cool it).
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Aaniin waa'-inizhang wiiyaas gaa-wii'-ondaabasang.

How is she going to cut the meat she's going to smoke?
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Obiisiga'aanan misan wii'-ondaabasang wiiyaas.

He chops the wood so he can start smoking the meat.
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ondaabasan /ondaabas-/: /ond-/
from a certain place, for a certain reason
; /-aabas/
put it in the smoke

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