There is no real substantive verb in the language, and adjectives, when becoming verbified, are turned into attributive verbs, as in Creek: wánti strong, hard; tsawántus I am strong; wántus he, it is strong, hard; wántatik not strong; wántigus he is very strong; wántatis he is not strong; wanta'hlátis he is not strong at all.
The gradation of the adjective is expressed either by the attributive verb, to which isi-, is- is prefixed, or in some other ways syntactically:
Kúdsuni tchátu-kunáwun isínwantûs iron is harder than silver.
ukitchúbi okilósi ihayuχkíki o'latíwats a lake is deeper than a river; lit. "to river the lake in its depth does not come up." This may also be expressed: okilósi (u)kitchóbi isihayuχkúwats; lit. "a lake (than) a river more-deepens."
yá hali'hlósăka lápkun uⁿweíkas this boy is the tallest; lit. "this boy all surpasses in height."
yát yákni tchäíh'-apiktchaχáyus this is the highest mountain; lit. "this ground-high stands ahead."
The numeral has two forms for the cardinal number: one used attributively, and another, abbreviated from it, used exclusively for counting; there are, outside of this, forms for the ordinal, for the distributive, and for the adverbial numeral. The list of the numerals is as follows:
| Cardinals. | Ordinals. | Distributive. | Adverbial. | ||
| 1 | `lámin | `láhai'h | índshuatki | `láhamin | a`la'hmi |
| "beginning." | |||||
| 2 | túklan | tukā′ | satóklaka | tuklákan | satúkla'h |
| 3 | tutchínan | tutchi | satotchínaka | tutchinákan | atutchína'h |
| 4 | sitákin | síta'h | isítagika | sitahákin | asítagi |
| 5 | tchaχgípan | tchá'hgi | istchaχgípaka | tchaχgipákan | atsá'hgipi |
| 6 | ípagin | ípa | isipágaka | ipahákan | isípagi |
| 7 | kulapákin | kúlapa | iskulapákika | kulapáhakan | iskulapáki |
| 8 | tusnapákin | tusnapá | istusnapákika | tusnapáhakan | istusnapáki |
| 9 | ustapákin | ustapá | isustapákika | ustapáhakan | isustapáki |
| 10 | pokólin | pukú | ispokólika | pukúlakan | ispukúli |
| 20 | pokóli túklan | ispokol-túklaka | pokó-tukúlakan | ispukúli-túklan | |
| 100 | tchúkpi `lámin | istchukpi-`lámika | tchukpi-`lámakan | istchukpi-`lámin | |
| Folded four times is expressed by the cardinal: po`lótki sítaki; folded eight times: po`lótki tusnapákin. | |||||
The personal pronoun appears in different forms: subjective absolute; subjective prefixed to verbs and objective pronoun.
| Subjective absolute: | Subj. prefixed: | Objective: | |
| I | ā′ni | tcha-, am-, an-, a- | tcha- |
| thou | tchí'hni | tchi- | tchi- |
| he, she, it | í'hni | im-, in-, i- | |
| we | pú'hni | pu-, po- | pu- |
| ye | tchi'hnitáki | tchi-, inverted: ítch- | tchi-, w. suffix |
| they | i'hnitáki | im-, in-, i- |
ánāli (usually ánalut) myself, 2 s. tchí'hnāli, 3 s. í'hnāli; pú'hnāli ourselves, 2 pl. tchi'hnālitáki, 3 pl. i'hnalitáki.
The possessive pronoun.