Question 1

How do native speakers pronounce "mshimin" in English?

Accepted Answer

In natural English speech, "mshimin" appears in contexts such as: "Potawatomi writer and botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer breaks it down like this: “Of an inanimate being, like a table, we say, ‘What is it?’ And we answer ‘Dopwen yewe.’ ‘Table it is.’ But of an apple, we must say, ‘Who is that being?’ And reply ‘Mshimin yawe.’ ‘Apple that being is.’” Or, in my tribe, the Navajo, or Dine’, we use the word “hózhó” to refer to a sense of harmony in different situations.". Listen to the exact timestamped clip in the accompanying video with synchronized subtitles.

Question 2

Where can I hear "mshimin" used in a real sentence?

Accepted Answer

Our pronunciation database found 1 conversational video occurrences of "mshimin" with real-time synchronized transcripts and sentence context.

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