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Definition: try to [do something], try and [do something], try [doing something]

ggweji-
>pv comm.
>CCONJ gegweji-; 1 try to [do something], try and [do something], try [doing something]. Mii go pane ggweji-debwet wa; wiin kina gegoo gkendaan nendam.
>That guy always tries to have the last word; he thinks he knows everything. MC2005.cs. Jibwaa-niiwo-dbagnek ngagweji-giizhiitaa.
>I'm trying to finish by four o'clock. MC2005.cs.
>Full-vowel form: gagweji.

Languages: Nishnaabemwin (Odawa/Eastern Ojibwe)

Part of speech: Affix Prefix

Source of term: Mary Ann Corbiere and Rand Valentine, Dictionary of Nishnabewin Database, publication pending (2015).

Unique ID: n73020962021n

GKS Reference Number: 15396

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