23.5. Next ... , last ... , and this ...
Models
| 1) | YÁ¸ SEN SE¸ ¸E TI¸Á SĆELÁNEṈ. | ‘I will go this year.’ |
| 2) | YÁ¸ LE¸ SEN ¸E TI¸Á SĆELÁNEṈ. | ‘I went this year.’ |
| 3) | YÁ¸ SEN SE¸ ¸E ȻSE NEȾE¸ SĆELÁNEṈ. | ‘I will go next year.’ |
| 4) | YÁ¸ LE¸ SEN ¸E ȻSE NEȾE¸ SĆELÁNEṈ. | ‘I went last year.’ |
| 5) | YÁ¸ LE¸ SEN ¸E ȻSE ĆESE¸ SĆELÁNEṈ. | ‘I went two years ago.’ |
‣ 1 In §2, the LE¸ ‘past’ and SE¸ ‘future’ markers were introduced. There it was pointed out that the past and future markers are not required if the context makes it clear when an event happened. Here, where the past and future markers make a big difference in meaning, they are required.
‣ 2 Models 1 and 2 have the time expression meaning ‘this year’ in an adverbial prepositional phrase, a pattern for time expressions that should be familiar by now. These first two models are straightforward. TI¸Á ‘this’ and SĆELÁNEṈ ‘year’ form the object of the preposition ¸E. The first part of each of those models form the basic sentences meaning ‘I will go’ and ‘I went.’
‣ 3 Looking at models 3 and 4, you can see that the adverbial prepositional phrases are the same while their English translations are different. In these two models, the difference between ‘next year’ and ‘last year’ is carried by the presence of SE¸ and LE¸ in the first part of each sentence.
‣ 4 The word NEȾE¸ in models 3 and 4 is the number ‘one.’ So model 3 could also be translated ‘I went one year ago,’ and model 4 could also be translated ‘I will go in one year.’ Model 5 shows that this pattern could be used for any number of years.
‣ 5 The words SENTI ‘week’ or ȽḴÁL¸J ‘month’ could be substituted for SĆELÁNEṈ with the expected change in meaning making this a very useful pattern.
‣ 6 New vocabulary:
SĆELÁNEṈ ‘year’
SENTI ‘week’
ȽḴÁL¸J ‘month’
 | ĆEN¸TÁṈ SE¸ Ȼ EN¸ SYÁ¸ OX̱ ṮEW̱LEMI? | ‘When will you go to Lummi?’ |
 | YÁ¸ SEN SE¸ ¸E TI¸Á XÁ¸XE¸ȽNÁT | ‘I’ll go this Sunday.’ |
| YA¸ LE¸ SEN ¸E ȻSE SŦEṈNÁTS | ‘I went Tuesday.’ |
| ÍY¸ E LE¸ SȻÁĆEL? | ‘Was it a good day?’ |
| 23.5A. Translate each into English. 1. QENNEW̱ SEN ¸E TI¸Á SȽKÁĆESS. 2. ȽÁU¸ NE SḴÁXE¸ ¸E ȻSE NEȾE¸ SĆELÁNEṈ. 3. IȾEṈ SEN SE¸ ¸E TŦE ȻEĆIL¸. 4. YÁ SEN SE¸ ¸E ȻSE NEȾE¸ ȽḴÁL¸J. | 23.5B. Translate each into SENĆOŦEN. 1. It will fly next Wednesday. 2. I’ll see you next year. 3. Did you take it last Sunday? 4. He grew this year. |