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haasdzíí' ---is one way. This more like "I spoke"
bidishní -- "I told it to him or her"
dííniid ---- is another way. This is the first person perfective of "say".der
Navajo grammar is much harder than English. It has modes and aspects that are more important than past tense. For example if you said it over and over it would conjugate differently annd to an English speakker seem to be a different word.
The verb stem for " to say" is ní
jiníʼ is "it is said"
dishní -- is "I say"
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