How do you say faith in Navajo?

Answer 1

To my knowledge there isn't really a word that corresponds with destiny or fate in Navajo.

The idea is rather foreign to the traditional culture. In traditional Navajo culture when something happens it is because of a cause. We can be in personal control of these causes. For example, if this year you break your leg, didn't get a raise, haven't been sleeping well and had more colds that is not because of fate or coincidence and they are not separate things. It is because your life is not in hózhǫ́. This is a key concept that means balance, beauty, peace, order, goodness. Perhaps you broke a taboo or perhaps you haven't been careful with your words and feelings. These things might have caused your malaise not destiny. You can go and get a ceremony done for you and get back in hózhǫ́. Hózhǫ́ is a dynamic balancing of multiple moving forces not a static symmetry. The inner and out, active and static, male and female, light and dark all need to be in balance. It is always within our power to work on walking in hózhǫ́

Answer 2

"to have faith is it" ( a religion or belief or cure) is: diníssín

One needs to conjugate this as to how you are using it and who is being talked about. Navajo is a very verb based language so there tends not to be nouns used in this sort of case.

"To get faith in it" : diníssįįh

Answer 3

To "have faith in" is: díníssin

The marks above mean high tone not stress or accent. So this words syllables are: high, high, low.

The single "i' is said as in "bit"

"di-nis-sin"

This conjugates for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc, in the usual way that Navajo verbs do:

díníssin

dínísin

yinísin

jinísin

díníilzin

dínóhsin