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Yajika inan achtu kitakwaltia. Wan kwak kita ka ne tutuchin welia patani, kunij kichiwa ka kiselia mayan, pal pewa patani. Ka su te kichiwa kiunij, ne tutuchin te keman patani, maya kichia ne takwal tik ishumul.

So first the mother feeds it, and when it sees that the baby bird is already able to fly, it makes it go hungry so that it will start to fly. Because if it doesn’t do that, the baby bird will never fly, it will just wait for food in its nest.

Yaja kiuni cafe. Ne siwapiltzin kita ne iikaw.

Ella bebe café. La niña ve a su hermanito.

Ijkiuni nipanuk hasta ne teutak. Kwakuni ajsik ka nuchan se nukunpa. Yaja walaj pal kita su ninemi yek, ika kimatki ka te niajsik nitekiti.

Así pasé hasta la tarde. Entonces llegó a mi casa un amigo [o una amiga]. Él vino para ver si estaba bien, porque supo que no llegué a trabajar.

The old man told her, "look, he's happy to see the little birds".

He was seeing what his wife was doing.

The iron-toothed-old-woman sensed it; she came to go see it.

Yajki kita ne lamajtzin. Sel pipiltzitzin ne iishyu ne tekumat; sel pipiltzitzin.

The old woman went to see; the seeds of the gourd were just little boys, they were just little boys.

But as the Nanahuatzin was there, the youngest child, he saw what their grandmother was doing.