- Lesson of The Day Sign Up Here
- Adjectives
- Pretty, Handsome - Pisa Achukma
- Dirty - Liteha
- Old - Sipokni
- pretty - pisa achukma 2nd
- young - himitta
- scared - nukshopa
- to be clean - kashofa
- flat - latvssa
- good - achukma
- best - achukma moma i shahli
- thin - tapvski
- Absent or None
- Libesha - warm
- kvllo - hard; lapushki - soft
- himona - new
- smells good and sweet
- lashpa - hot and kapvssa - cold
- balama achukma - smells good
- kotoma - stinks
- lvcha - wet
- lashpa - hot
- kapassa - cold; homma - red
- himitthoa - young (two or more)
- ossi - small, little
- hoshonti - cloudy
- shila - dry
- chaha - tall
- tikahbi, tikambi - tired
- anumpa himona - new words
- halupa - to be sharp
- Adverbs
- Adverb of Degree
- Animals
- Animals
- Animal lesson
- Bat
- Horse
- Owl
- Dog - came back
- Dog - bathing
- Object Marker: A(hn)-Ya(hn)
- Dog - Fed
- Pork - shukha
- Animal - Venison
- cat - katos
- Cat
- issuba illi - dead horse
- shawi - racoon
- fvla - crow
- hvpi katos - our cat
- luksi - turtle
- nvni - fish
- hushi - bird
- hushi vpa
- fvni - squirrel
- isapuntak - mosquito
- hachunchuba - alligator
- issi - deer
- hvpim ofosik - our puppy
- pim ofi - our dog
- ofi hohchvffo - hungry dog
- ofi chito - big dog
- nita - bear
- hushi homma, ofi lusa
- yvnvsh - buffalo
- vm issuba - my horse
- vm ofi - my dog
- sheki - buzzard
- koi - lion
- wak - cow
- issi chito - big deer
- akaka tuklo - two chickens
- ofi mvt - that dog
- osi - eagle
- nvni hokli - catch fish
- issuba pa - this horse
- katos - cat
- Are you ___?
- Body Parts
- Careers/Occupations
- Chief
- Chief/Boss
- Choctaw dancers
- Doctor
- I work at Choctaw Nation.
- Warrior
- hoponi - cook
- apesvchi - manager, caregiver
- abeka apesvchi - nurse
- holisso pisa - student
- aiimpa chukka apesvchi - restaurant manager
- ikhvnanchi - teacher
- vlla apesvchi - babysitter
- wak apesvchi - cowboy, rancher
- na kanchi - sales clerk
- school cooks, teachers
- na kanchi - salesman
- alikchi - doctor
- vlla apesvchi yvt - the babysitter
- hvpi miko - our chief
- Chahta ikhvnanchi - Choctaw teachers
- ikhvnanchi mvt - that teacher
- hoponi vhleha - cooks
- Choctaw
- Choctaw Alphabet
- Clothing
- Colors
- Commands
- Dialogue
- Where are you going? I don't know.
- Are you cold? Dialogue 1/5
- Yes, I am cold. Dialogue 2/5
- No, I am not cold. Dialogue 3/5
- I am very cold. 4/5
- I am really cold! 5/5
- Where are you from?
- Where do you work?
- I am happy to meet you.
- What is the weather like?
- What is the weather like? It is cold/freezing
- How old are you?
- illimpa yvt achukma fehna
- You come back again!
- Days/Months/Years
- Directional Particle
- Go and.... - ont
- Come and.... - ant
- that way - misha
- Go and.... - ont (2nd)
- this way - ola
- toward - pila (2nd)
- that way - misha (2nd)
- West - Hvshi aiokvtula
- North - Falvmmi
- South - Oka mahli
- East - Hvshi akuchaka
- toward which way - katimma pila
- that way (from speaker) - pit
- this way (toward speaker) = et/auet
- ola - this way
- et - this way toward the speaker
- ont - go and
- Ethnic Groups
- Food & Drinks
- Banaha
- Bread
- Coffee/Water
- Cook
- Cooking/Bread
- Drinking/Water
- Eat
- Eating
- Eat/Food
- Food
- Fry bread
- Groceries
- I am somewhat hungry.
- Meat/Venison
- To cook
- To eat
- Want to eat
- Water
- Warm water
- Bird seed
- restaurant
- Food - Venison
- Eating - students/child
- food/groceries - illimpa
- na waya - fruit
- a takkon - my apple
- hoponi - to cook
- shukshi - watermelon
- palvska champuli - dessert, sweet bread
- tobi - beans
- illimpa - food
- impa - eating
- pishokchi - milk
- vlwasha - to be fried
- vpa - eat
- oktusha vpa - eating snow
- tanchi palvska - corn bread
- chukfi vpa - eating rabbit
- nan ishko - something to drink
- ahe shua - rotten potato
- ofi im illimpa - dog food
- chibai impa - eat with you
- banaha - shuck bread
- palvska champuli - cake
- pishukchi - milk
- Expressions/Emotions/Gratitude
- Greeting/Goodbye Phrases
- Hello, how are you?
- I am doing good/well! And you?
- I'm doing good/well or likewise/too. (1)
- Greetings: Dialogue - 2 Person
- I'm doing good/fine or likewise too!
- What is your name
- My name is (your name)
- I am happy to meet you.
- Are you Choctaw?
- Yes, I am Choctaw.
- No, I am not Choctaw.
- Where are you from?
- Where do you live
- I live in/at ( ).
- Where do you work?
- You come back again!
- Yes/Very well, I will see you later.
- Very well - Yes - Thank you
- Health
- Holidays/Seasons
- Indefinite Pronoun
- Indirect Object
- Interrogative
- What do you want?
- katimma - where
- kvta - who
- katohmi - how many
- nanta hvsh katiohmi?
- nanta - what
- where is the woman standing
- What did you hear?
- Nanta ish hoponi tuk?
- Katimma ish amiti?
- kvta hosh, katimma ho
- kvta hosh - who is
- Katimma ish bohli tuk?
- vm ilefoka katimma
- katimi ho - why
- kvta hosh - who
- katimma, katomma - where
- kvta hosh, katomma
- Mato kvta? - Who's that?
- kvta hosh - who broke
- katimma hvsh - where you (all)
- what - nanta
- kvta, katimo ho - who, why
- Nanta ish potoli tuk?
- Katimma ish talali tuk?
- katimma ia
- Lessons
- Location/Position
- Materials & Items
- Name
- Nouns
- Noun: palvska champuli - cake/cookies, pastries, etc.
- Noun: Pinak - food/groceries
- Noun: holbvt toba - a picture/image
- Noun: shukcha - bag/purse
- Noun: holhtina - number
- ofosik - puppy
- na pakanli - flower(s)
- shulush chaha - boots
- chukka apanta - neighbor
- illimpa - food
- nuti - tooth/ teeth
- Noun: bahta - a bag/ sack
- hiloha - thunder
- shutik - sky
- ahoponi - kitchen
- iskvli - money
- na pakanli - flowers
- himak ninak - tonight
- hvshi - month
- isht toksvli - tool
- holihta - fence
- fvni - squirrel
- nita - bear
- ninak - night
- apisa - mirror
- nan vnnoa - a story
- nan vnnoa - story
- illimpa - food/ groceries
- walakshi - dumplings
- kanimma - somewhere
- vm abinili - my chair
- anchi - quilt, covering
- ampo ossi - small plate
- ampo - dishes
- ampo - plate, dish
- hina - road
- aiimpa - table
- aboha - room
- holbvttoba - picture
- osi holbvttoba - eagle picture
- fichik - stars
- luak - fire
- fvla - crow
- haiyokpulo - weeds
- Numbers/Ages
- Object Marker
- People/Person
- Baby
- Boy/Girl
- Brother
- Brother
- Brother
- Dad/Father
- Father
- Girl (1)
- Girl/Boy
- Girl's
- Grandfather
- Grandfather
- Grandmother
- Grandmother
- Grandmother
- He/She
- His/Her
- Lesson people
- Man
- Mother
- Mother
- Mother
- My grandfather's
- Sales Clerk
- Sister
- Sister
- Student
- Tall man
- Warrior
- Woman
- Woman
- Woman/Man
- You are a boy.
- Young Man
- People (1)
- Chief - spoke to
- Man - Old
- Child - good
- People - cooks
- Person - Chickasaw
- People - Cherokee
- People - Creek (tribe)
- Person - Seminole woman
- Person - Choctaw teacher
- Person - mother
- Person - Abeka Apesvchi
- Person - short man
- Person - Babysitter
- Person - cowboy
- Person - Indian woman
- Person - Lady/Woman
- vlla, vllosi - child, baby
- hattak pvt - this man
- holisso pisa - students
- vlla -child
- ohoyo chaha - tall woman
- vllosi - baby
- aki yvt - my dad
- svshki - my mother
- vlla iskitini - small child
- pokni - grandmother
- vmafo - my grandfather
- okla - people, they
- okla - they
- okla - they, people
- sv - my, I am
- aki - my father
- vlla nakni - boy
- chim ohoyo - your wife
- hattak chaha - tall man
- miko -chief
- Child - angry
- ohoyo mvt - that woman
- I - washing
- vlla pvt - this child
- Person - old man
- hattak mvt - that man
- Person - Chahta woman
- Person - young man & boys
- chi nakfi - your brother
- Phrases
- I am going to or (will) take
- I am somewhat hungry.
- I don't believe so!
- I don't know
- I know
- I'm ready - Present, past, future
- I want to borrow money./I'm just saying that!
- I will buy a new car
- I will comb my hair/Dry your hair!
- ima - to give to him/her/or it
- Katimikash? When?
- Katimi ho? - Why?
- Katimma and Katomma Where?
- Listen and Hear
- Looks like it's going to rain.
- Not yet
- Probably not
- Probably will
- Right Now!
- Sentences with time - Day Before Yesterday
- Sentences with time - Last Night.
- Sentences with time - Sometimes
- Sentences with time - Tonight.
- That is true!
- That, Those
- The food is very good.
- This, These
- To give to me.
- To take; To hold; To get
- What (is/are)(he, she or they) saying
- Where are you from
- What is your name
- Do you want to eat?
- No, I do not want to eat.
- I am happy to meet you.
- Do you read the Biskinik?
- I'm ready! - Present/Past/Future
- Are you listening? What did you hear?
- What will you cook? I will boil (cook) beans.
- Places
- Church
- Church/Store
- Colorado
- Home/House
- House/Room
- McAlester
- Playground
- Room
- School
- School/Church
- Tushka Homma
- Store
- Wal-Mart
- Place - hospital
- Place - restaurant
- School (1)
- holisso apisa - school
- pi holisso apisa - our school
- a chukka - my house
- Hugo amiti li.
- ahoponi - kitchen
- kanimma - somewhere
- tvmaha - town
- okhvta - lake
- aboha - room
- i chukka - his/ her house
- town - tvmaha
- Sardis okhvta - Sardis lake
- kocha - outside
- chim aboha - your room
- kucha - outside
- aiitvtoba - store
- Plants/Trees
- Personal Pronouns
- Possessive Adjectives
- Possessive Pronouns
- Possessive Pronouns Chart
- your - chi, chim
- my - A(hn)
- your - chi/chim (chukka/shulush)
- his, hers, theirs, its - i/im - chukka/wak
- Im oka, ilefoka
- I(n) shukcha, shulush
- your - chi/chim (chishki)
- your - chi/chim (chiki)
- Vm, A(n)
- your - chi/chim (nakfi)
- your - chi/chim (tek)
- your - chi/chim (mafo)
- i/ im - their, his, hers, its
- im anumpa, im vlla
- hvchim ofi, hvchim issi kosoma
- hvchi chukka
- pi shulush, pi miko
- pim - our
- pi holisso apisa, holbvttoba
- sv bishnakni - my nose
- chim abinili
- a nakfi - my brother
- vm oka, vm issuba
- vm ofi, vm alikchi
- vm isht holissochi, vm abinili
- hvpim - our (all)
- hvpi - our (all)
- im aboha, im anchi
- aki yvt - my father
- Postposition
- Pronoun
- I - sv/si
- we - pi
- we (all) - hvpi
- you (all) - hvchi
- he/she/it - unmarked
- us - pi
- us (all) - hvpi
- you (all) - hvchi (2nd)
- unmarked - he/she/it
- I am - sia
- you are - chia
- you (all) are - hvchia
- we are - pia
- we (all) are - hvpia
- they; people; group - okla
- we - e/il
- something - na/nana
- chi - you
- chia - you are
- you (all) - hvsh
- hvsh - you (all)
- vno ako - me, the one whom
- ilap akosh - he, she, it, they initiate action
- chi bvnna - you want
- Pronouns
- Questions & Answers
- Answers with adjectives
- Are you Choctaw?
- Are you cold?
- Are you going to buy a new car?
- Are you hungry?
- Did your brother go to his workplace?
- Did you eat?
- Do you read the Biskinik?
- Do you want to eat?
- Do you want to eat (Dialogue)
- Do you want to eat - Dialogue
- Do you want to sit outside?
- Hello - Dialogue
- I am really cold!
- I am really hungry.
- I am somewhat hungry
- I am very cold.
- I work at Choctaw Nation.
- It is food I was thinking about.
- Katohmi? How many?
- My name is ( ).
- No, I am not cold
- No, I am not hungry
- No, I do not want to eat.
- That is mine.
- That is yours
- What are you buying? - Dialogue
- What are you thinking about?
- What did you buy?
- What did you cook. Past Tense
- What did you eat?
- What is the weather like outside?
- What is this?
- What is your name?
- What is your name? - Dialogue
- What will you buy?
- What will you buy? - Dialogue
- What will you cook? Present Tense
- What will you eat?
- Where are you from?
- Where are you from - Dialogue
- Where are you going?
- Where did your mother go
- Where do you live
- Where do you live?
- Where do you live? - Dialogue.
- Where do you work?
- Where do you work? Dialogue
- Where does your dad/father work?
- Who is that?
- Whose is this?
- Will you be going to the store?
- Will you go to town?
- Yes, I am Choctaw/No, I am not Choctaw.
- Yes, I am cold
- Yes, I am hungry
- Yes, I want to eat.
- Senses: Hear,Sight,Smell,Taste,Touch
- Shapes & Objects
- Technology
- Tense Markers
- Time
- Time Marker: -kma
- Tomorrow
- to arise - tani
- night - ninak
- dark/darkness - okhlilika
- Himak nittak -today
- mishash - day before yesterday
- Past time marker - ash/kash
- Himak ninak - tonight
- all day (until late evening) - shohbi
- hvshi - month
- katimikma - when (in the future)
- hopaki - long ago
- Hour/Time/O'Clock - Hvshi Kanvlli
- onnakma - tomorow
- katimikash - when (in the past)
- ninak iklvnna - midnight
- afvmmi - year
- pilashash - yesterday
- himak nittak
- ninakash - last night
- To do something
- Dance
- look
- To be fried
- To exercise
- Destroy
- eat/see
- read and build
- talowvt pisa - try to sing
- hokchi - to plant
- vpa - eating
- chompa - buying
- hiohli - standing
- vpa - to eat
- toksvlit ia - go to work
- ikbi - build, make
- achefa - wash
- hochefo - read
- hochefa chi - going to read
- shilli, shileli
- isso - hitting
- tvshki - to lie down
- apoksia - to repair, fix
- abvchi - to teach
- hopohoni - continue cooking
- atahli - prepares
- pisa - try to ...
- yokohpa - suddenly stop
- ittimpakna - to race, compete
- mihchi - do, doing
- bvshli cha hokmi - cutting and burning
- taloa - sing
- bvshli - cutting
- Unmarked: he, she, they, it
- Vegetables & Fruits
- Verbs
- falamvt - return, come back
- wet/wetting
- Read
- Ahni - Think
- chompa - buy/purchase
- Hochefo - Read/Name/Call
- Bohli - Put/Place/Lay(s)(a single item)
- aiokpanchi - like (something)
- ashachi - put/place/lay (pl)
- talohli - put/place/set (pl)
- hlopulli - go through
- kania - go away/to be gone
- ilhkoli - go/going
- hotina - count/counting
- shali - carry
- ikhvna - learn/learning
- ohikia - standing on
- read and build
- ombinili - to ride/to sit on
- Owvtta - Hunt (animals)
- takchi - tie
- hoponi - to cook
- yupi - to bathe, to swim
- abvchi - to teach
- kopoli - bite/biting
- habli - kick/kicking
- apoksia - to repair/to fix
- ittonla - lying
- tvshki - to lie down
- Atobbi - to pay
- aiyvla - several arrives
- kashoffi - clean
- Verb: achonli - to sew
- hopohoni - continue cooking
- atahli - prepares
- ittiachi - (to) go (two only)
- ilhkoli - (to) go (plural)
- pisa - try to ...
- ittimpakna - to race, compete
- hopasa - chew
- ittvlachi - two arrives
- vpa - to eat
- achefa - to wash
- ampo achefa - wash dishes
- taloa - sing
- nvni hokli - fishing
- vmo - pick (berries), mow, to harvest
- talovt pisa - try to sing
- apela - help
- okcha - to awake
- kashoffi - cleaning
- tahpala - to shout, yell
- talali - to place, set
- hokli - to catch
- foha - to rest
- washoha - to play
- chiba hihla - dance with you
- taloa chi - will sing
- kashoffi - to clean
- abvcha chi - will teach
- hochehifo - keeps reading
- ohomba - keep raining
- binili - sit
- tobli - to push
- hlatvbli - to spill
- Weather
- Word Formation
- Vocabulary Vol. I
- believe - yimmi
- hard/loudly (adverb) - chitolit
- once - himonnah ma
- to be full (container) - alota
- seem - ahoba
- skin/shell/bark - hakshup
- to be full (from eating) - kaiya
- to be braided; plaited
- to be locked - ashana
- to cut with scissors - kalvshli
- to braid; plait - pvnni
- to be damaged; harmed - okpulo
- to count; number - hotina
- to be counted; numbered - holhtina
- to be fried - vlwvsha
- to fry - vwvshli
- to be setting - talaya
- to suddenly see - pihsa
- to be suddenly afraid - nukshohpa
- to awake - okcha
- to flow, to run as water - yanvlli
- to take quick; short nap - nuhsi
- to be crooked - shanaiya
- to breathe - fiopa
- to loose; loosen - yuhvbli
- to suddenly stand; rise - wakahya
- to suddenly awake - ohokcha
- to step aside; move - kanvlli
- to sweat; sweating - laksha
- to be loosed; loosened - yuhapa
- to wade - oka nowa
- straight - apissa
- crooked - tanakbi
- to think - ahni
- to pull - halvlli
- medicine - ikhish/okhish
- fish - nvni
- boat - oka peni
- bark/howl/bellow - woha
- give to him/her/it - ima
- to swim - yupi
- to be cut with scissors - kalvsha
- to comb - shilli
- to swallow - nanvbli
- with me - svba/svbai
- with us - piba/pibai
- a comb - shalintak
- with him/her/it - iba/ibai
- to swallow (pl) - nvlli
- work with - iba toksvli
- string - isht talakchi
- to be with; together with
- I, the one who... - vn
- you, the one whom - chishno ako
- you, the one who - chishno akosh
- we/us, the ones who - pishno akosh
- we/us, the ones whom - pishno ako
- we/us...all the ones who initiate an action - hvpishno akosh
- you all, the ones who - hvchishno akosh
- you all, the ones whom - hvchishno ako
- (him, her, it, them)...an action directed to him, her, it, them - ilap ako
- and then/and so/so that - conjunction for clauses with different subjects - na
- to sneeze - habishko
- heavy/weight - weki
- small pieces/change (coins)/crumbs, etc. - boshulli
- picture/ photograph - holbvttoba
- carry - sholi
- give you - chima
- himself - ile
- scream - tasaha
- hurriedly/quickly - tushpvt
- hurt - hottupa
- finally speak - anumpuyyoli
- keeps seeing - pihisa
- to continue running; to keep on - balihinla
- to keep on jumping - tolohombli
- finally knows/remembers - ikhayyana
- keeps wanting - bvhanna
- keeps on drinking - ihishko
- suddenly jumps - tulohobli
- finally run - ballili
- Bible - Holisso Holitopa
- hear - haklo
- I don't hear.
- we don't hear - kehaklo
- you didn't hear - hvchikhaklo
- he/she/it doesn't/they don't hear - ikhaklo
- run - balili
- eat - impa
- softly/quietly - lummasi
- coffee - kvfi
- none/all gone - iksho
- to call/a call - paya
- you (all) don't sit - hvchikbinilo
- you do not/did not sit - chikbinilo
- we do not/did not sit - kebinilo
- I do not/did not sit - akbinilo
- I did not eat - akimpo
- slowly - salaha hosh
- sleepily - nusi hosh
- while playing - washoha ho
- we did not eat - kil impo
- you all did not eat - hvchikimpo
- he/she/it/they did not eat - ikimpo
- while washing - achefa ho
- while running - balili ho
- while tying - takchi ho
- sadly - nukhaklo hosh
- angrily - nukowa hosh
- hungrily - hohchvffo hosh
- while/as its hot (in that state) - lvshpa ho
- let's (precedes consonants) - ke
- let's (precedes vowels) - kil
- not - follows command to negate - nna
- Cause to walk - nowachi
- still water in a river/creek - oktimpi
- to be cooked/done - nuna
- cause to be frozen - kalampichi
- to freeze/to be frozen - kalampi
- to walk on; in - anowa
- river bank;creek bank - sakti
- to scare/make afraid - nukshobli
- a puddle - oka talaya
- barefoot - iyyi bano
- to bear fruit - waya
- to cry/mew - yawa
- watermelon - shukshi
- to run/scamper - yihlepa
- dew - fichak
- to understand - anukfohka
- a nest - vlhpichik
- to wake/awaken - okchvli
- to trouble/interrupt/bother - ataklvmmi
- prairie - oktak
- cause to grow - wayachi
- to depend upon/trust
- to tickle - chukchuli
- to pinch (with fingers) - chiniffi
- to camp - binachi
- buffalo - yvnvsh
- buzzard - sheki
- lion - koi
- tent - vlhtipo
- shell/mussel/clams/sea - okfulush
- spectator/sightseer - yopisa
- racoon - shawi
- pigeon - pvchi
- sleeping bag - anusi shukcha
- vendor(s) - na kanchi
- to wash (something) - achefa
- prayer - anumpa ilbvsha
- eat (item named) - vpa
- place where someone works - atoksvli
- boy - vlla nakni girl - vlla tek
- bag; sack - bahta
- to run - balili
- to want, desire - bvnna
- high, tall - chaha
- Choctaw - Chahta
- hoe - chahe
- Choctaw language - Chahta anumpa
- Choctaw Nation - Chahta Okla
- to rest; take a break; retire - foha
- squirrel - fvni
- leg - hanali
- to dance - hihla
- salt - hvpi
- Merry Christmas - Nittak Hullo Chito Na Yukpa
- to listen - haklo
- to receive (a present, prize, etc.) - habena
- shoe/shoes - shulush
- to eat a meal, dine - impa
- faith - na yimmi
- to feed (someone) - ipeta
- clan, denomination, a Christian - iksa
- my goodness! - aiyah!
- unruly or messy hair, tangled - yushwichali
- to bathe, take a bath, to swim - yupi
- corn husk - tanchi hakshup
- young (of two or more), young people, young animals.
- vocabulary chohmi
- Subject Markers
- Vocabulary Vol. II
- to make noise, make a racket, be noisy, loud
- sock/socks - yvbuski
- you - ish
- who - kvta
- to tell - anoli
- to believe - yimmi
- to believe - yimmi (lesson 2)
- skilled/skillful, smart, talented, etc. - imponna
- you are smart, etc. - chimponna
- Oka - water (1of 5)
- Oka - water (2 of 5)
- Oka - water (3 of 5)
- oka - water (4 of 5)
- to become open - tiwa (1 of 3)
- to already be open - tiwa (2 of 3)
- to open - tiwwi (3 of 3)
- Complex Verbs
- Opposites
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