Nouns:
- cuentos de hadas - fairy tales
- ee’jo’che’enil - darkness
- ee’same’eil - twilight, dusk
- eet - equal, same, company, with (takes -el when possessed, when possessed by a non-specific third-person argument can mean “and”)
- guitarra - guitar
- ich - eye, fruit, inside
- jolkan -soldier
- k’áak - fire
- k’áan - hammock, net
- lol - flower
- máak - person
- naj - house, building (takes -il when possessed)
- nook’ - clothes
- paalal - children
- paax - music
- pan - bread
- piixich - mask
- sakam - bread
- soots’ - bat
- tesoro - treasure
- wayak’ - dream
- xchúupal - girl
- Verbs:
- áalkab - run
- awat - call
- bal - disappear
- bin - go
- bis - carry (causative of bin)
- cha’anpaj - contemplate
- il - see
- k’íinkunt - heat
- leets’bal - shine
- máan - pass (antipassive)
- sut - turn, return
- ta’ak - hide
- taal - come
- yaan - be (somewhere), exist (outside of indicative present, conjugated as though it were a mediopassive verb)
Adjectives:
- chan - small
- che’ejil-che’ej - smiling
- ch’ija’an - old
- ki’ichpam - beautiful
- ma’alob - good
Other:
- bey - thus, just like
- -e’ - topic marker, also used to set off subordinate clauses (clitic)
- jach - very
- je’ (question word) - (question word)-ever
- je’....-e’ - future auxiliary
- je’e bix...-e’ - like
- jum - one
- ka’ - again
- lela’ - this (as a pronoun)
- le...a’ - this (thing)
- lelo’ - that (as a pronoun)
- le...o’ - that (thing) - also used for relative clauses
- ma’ - not
- p’éel - measure word, with things
- ti’ - through, in, by (general preposition)
- tu’ux - where
- wáa - question marker
Affixes:
- -bil - -able (on verbs)
- k- habitual marker
- -ik - transitivizer
- -Vk - mediopassive subjunctive marker
- (long high tone in root)-Vl - mediopassive verb marker
- -o’ob - plural (for both nouns and verbs)
- CV’V~ - frequentative, iterative (verbs)
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Set A personal affixes (subjects of transitive, antipassive, and mediopassive verbs, and possession markers):
| Sing | Pl |
| 1st | in | k |
| 2nd | a | a- -e’ex |
| 3rd | u | u, u- -o’ob |
in- and a- make a following vowel-initial word take a w-, u- make a following vowel-initial word take a y- possession in Yucatec works like
(Set A) (possessed) (possessor)
u pan máak “the man’s bread” Set B personal affixes (objects of transitive verbs, subjects of mediopassive verbs in subjunctive mood, predicative with nouns and adjectives, objects of prepositions):
| Sing | Pl |
| 1st | -en | -o’on |
| 2nd | -ech | -e’ex |
| 3rd | -Ø/-i | -o’ob |
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