Test after chapter 7


Vocabulary:
	ta		until
	ok		still
	niman		and
	nochipa		all the time
	chika:wak	strongly, very much so
	lamatsi:n	old woman

	tli:n		(the thing) that/which; that which	

	te:maxtike:tl	teacher

	chi:chi:le:wi (V1)	to turn red

	maxtia (V2)	to teach (sb)
	ixitia (V2)	to awaken
	
       tla:lia (V2)	(reflexive) to sit down
       na:mihtia (V2)	(refl) to get married	

Read carefully:
In each section get as far as you can in the time alloted (indicated at the end of the instructions). Do not go past the time limit. However, if you are stuck on one question, skip it and proceed to the next. 


Parse and gloss the words in italics and give a translation of each sentence. If you cannot understand a word, get as far as you can (e.g., list the subject if that is all you understand; (25 minutes maximum)

Nochipa nika:n nikochi ta ne:chixitia notah.

Pe:wa tlachi:chi:le:wi ya: ki:sa to:nahli.

Mitspale:wia Juan ya: mistlasotla.

Ne: o:nye:s tli:n tihneki. 

Tlakwa:lo ya: nona:mihtia María. Te:tlakwaltia i:na:n.

Nika:n ok nemi Juan. Xya:s mocha:n.

Tlapa:tsiwi ya: chika:wak kiawi.

Tlapi:tsalo, yo: ya: tipa:ki.

Xtlah o:nkatka tlapextli, yo: ya: o:nikoch (past tense of nikochi) i:pan (=on) tla:hli.

Nawa nisiwa:tl, nikone:tl katka niman nilamatsi:n yes (parse and gloss entire sentence).
 

Translate into Nahuatl (25 minutes):

Tomorrow I won’t be around.

Juan is at the place where people teach.

My money is here.

There are no dogs in Oapan. Ha, ha, ha!

There are no tortillas (at the place) where I sit down.

There weren’t any tortillas (at the place) where I ate (o:nitlakwah is ‘I ate’)

We will go to (the place) where people help each other out.

Yesterday I went to New York; today I came here, tomorrow I will be in Mexico City.

Who came here yesterday (with the implication that this person has left)?

What do you want?

I will be a teacher because my father was a teacher.

You were a child, for this reason you went to Disney World.



Fill in the missing columns of the following table (20 minutes).
There are 3 types of alternation: 
	nondirected
	causative
	anticausative

Best would be to confirm in the dictionary the existence of the form you write (be it transitive or intransitive). Note that if you get a possessed form wrong, no points will be deducted.

Vocabulary
	tlako:tl			switch (i.e., a rod or branch of a woody plant)
	ichpo:xtli (root: chpo:ch)	female adolescent; possessed = daughter
	nochi			everything
	to:nahli			sun
	kochpasolowa (V2)	to keep from sleeping
	tla:hli			earth
	tlake:ntli			clothes
	ikwa:k			when (not interrogative)
	tli:liwi			to turn black


Intransitive
Transitive
Type of alternation
Translate into Nahuatl
yekapitsiwi


They sharpen the switch.

cholo:ltia

He elopes with (literally ‘made elope’) María. She elopes.

tsatsi:tia

He makes me shout where there is shouting.

tsakwa

The door (use Sp. loan puerta) closes.

xi:nia

I dump out earth here.

tsi:nki:xtia

I pull it back for this reason it does not fall over.

pa:lakachowa

My mother spins herself around, she dances.

mela:wa

I lie it down on (i:pan) the bed.
tlapo:wi


Everything opens up here.
kakalaka


There is rattling all around, it keeps me from sleeping.
pa:ti


There is melting because it is hot.

kana:wa

My clothes get thin.

kalahtia

The sun sets (goes in) and it gets black all over.

te:ma

The water jug fill up when it rains.