Announcing: ban and banon

Bewa bewashamani!Singing, excellently! — Chána is with you for Module 5.

Shipibo Foundations · Module 5: The Suffix World · Lesson 2 of 5

Shipibo actions unfold in order, and the order starts with an announcement: -ban — I will do it. Add the listener and it becomes -banon — I will do it, between you and me. Ban is an open statement to no one in particular; banon implies someone receiving — the teachers' example was the healer speaking to a patient. Announcing is about intention: you say what you will do before you do it.

Culture note. Intention is the most common thing sung: -banon is everywhere in the songs, because the work begins by saying what the work will be.

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Learn the words

Tap to flip. Be honest — "again" brings it back.

tap to reveal

tap to flip back

In a sentence

Try translating each line yourself before you tap.

Ráma káno béwaban.

tap to translate

Now I will sing the kano.

En chorobobanon.

tap to translate

I will untangle as I go — announced to you.

Try it. Announce something small, out loud, before doing it. Feel how the announcement changes the act.

Build the sentence

Tap the words into order.

Say:

Check yourself

-banon differs from -ban because…

it implies a listenerit is past tenseit negates the verb

Announcement suffixes express…

intention — what you will doregretdoubt