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What does YÁ ÁT Ééh mean?
Example of yá’át’ééh Hello, family and friends – my people. Synonyms: greeting, hello, welcome. . .
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- dííjį́ saad: words of the day:
- ádá hozhdílzin. maintain reverence for yourself.
- ádił jídlĺ̨ respect yourself.
- ajíists’ą́ą́’ listen carefully.
- ádaa áhojilyą́ take care of yourself.
- áká ajilwo’ be helpful.
- ahééh jinízin. be thankful.
- joodlą́ to believe, have faith, find value in things.
What does Shi Yázhí mean in Navajo?
Yázhí itself is the Navajo equivalent of “little one” and is applied more broadly. For example “shizhé’é yázhí” refers to my father’s younger brother (uncle or little father). “Shimá yázhí” refers to my mother’s younger sister. Applied to animals, yázhí refers to the young animal, or the baby animals.
What does Bilagaana mean in Navajo?
white person
Anyway back to the point: Bilagaana translates literally to “white person.” However, in the 1860s vernacular, it was also meant to designate Americans -or as they were called by some in the tribe, “The New People”. Navajo Fire Dance by William Robinson Leigh.
Nizhoni means Beautiful in the Navajo language. The spring rains have brought out the color in our high desert landscape.
How do you say okay in Navajo?
A collection of useful phrases in Navajo (Diné Bizaad), an Athabaskan language spoken in Arizona and New Mexico in the USA….Useful phrases in Navajo.
| English | Diné Bizaad (Navajo) |
|---|---|
| Goodbye (Parting phrases) | Hágoónee’ (“okay/alright then”) Hágooshį́į́ Yá’át’ééh (reply) Á’aa, hágoónee’ (reply) |
| Good luck! |
What does Nakai mean in Navajo?
unknown ones
Nakai is a Native American name, given by the Navajo in the 1600s to the Conquistadors, and it means “unknown ones.”
It literally means thank you, although today it is also used as a direct translation of amen. Amen was traditionally not translated into aho, but a direct translation of so be it (Tsohagiaimdeta) was used instead.
A collection of useful phrases in Navajo (Diné Bizaad), an Athabaskan language spoken in Arizona and New Mexico in the USA….Useful phrases in Navajo.
| English | Diné Bizaad (Navajo) |
|---|---|
| I don’t understand | Doo ndiists’a’ da |
| Yes | Aoo’ |
| No | Dooda |
| Maybe |
Are there any useful phrases in the Navajo language?
A collection of useful phrases in Navajo (Diné Bizaad), an Athabaskan language spoken in Arizona and New Mexico in the USA. See these phrases in any combination of two languages in the Phrase Finder. If you can provide recordings, corrections or additional translations, please contact me .
Is there an agency that can translate Navajo?
We also translate Navajo to and from any other world language. We can translate into over 100 different languages. In fact, Translation Services USA is the only agency in the market which can fully translate Navajo to literally any language in the world!
The Navahos call themselves: “Dine” which means men or people and in conversing with them they will tell you that “Dine” simply means “The People”. The Apache-Navajo language and the other Athabascan languages belong to an entirely different language family from the Amerindian languages.
Many basic verbs in Navajo may translate into many words in English; for instance, the verb si’ means “to cause a hafted object to move” or, more practically, “to practice archery”.