Observation

akuneu	s/he photographs him/her	apu akunin	you don’t photograph me
kańeu	s/he hides him/her, it (anim)	nikańau	I hide it (anim)

These verb stems end in the consonant n or ń. The verbs are conjugated regularly, i.e. the form of the stem stays the same throughout the conjugation.

TA VERBS WITH n OR ń STEMS

akuaneu	s/he drops him/her off	apu akuanat	s/he doesn’t drop him/her off
akuneu	s/he photographs him/her	nitakunauat	I photograph them
upineu	s/he raises him/her	nupinikuti	s/he raised me
uińeu	s/he names him/her	tshuińin	you name me
kańeu	s/he hides him/her, it (anim)	kańepan	s/he hid it (anim)
mińeu	s/he gives it to him/her	mińekᵘ!	(you pl) give it to him/her!

NOTES ON SPELLING

Since these stems end in a consonant, the vowel i must be added when adding a suffix that begins with a consonant: tshi+uiń+n = tshuińin you name me. With stems ending in n or ń, attention must be paid to forms where a suffix beginning with n is added: tshikańnan you hide us, tshimińnau you (pl) give it to me. For the 2s-1s form, the suffix n comes after the stem ending in n or ń: tshi+miń+n = tshimiń (a low tone indicates the delection of this suffix). With mixed and non-local inverse forms, note the phenomenon of vowel harmonisation with the sequences ikᵘ and iku: nimińikᵘ […ukw] s/he gives it to me, mińiku […uku] s/he (obv) gives it to me.