EP: Ibu̠nitu kima!/Come over here!
Channel: Comanche Nation Language Department
Date: 04/08/2020

Marʉaweka!

Here is another high frequency phrase to supercharge your language use. High frequency phrases are phrases you use all the time and help to increase your use of language, especially at home, while learning.

Here we have speaker Puhayʉtsʉ (Geneva Woomavoyah Navarro) saying "Ibu̠nitu kima!" (Come over here!) three times.

Ibu̠nitu kima!

Ibu-ni-tu kima!

i- (this)
-bu- (way-direction)
-ni- (adverbial suffix)
-tu (down, along, at, on)
kima (come-verb stem)

This is translated as Come over here! or Come this way!

Notice the first u in ibunitu is underlined. This means it is whispered.
Notice that the stress and length in kima is on the first syllable.

Listen carefully to the speaker and then...

Listen, repeat, and practice!
And remember the only way to do language wrong is to not do it at all!