| mishkamu | s/he finds something | nimishken | I find something |
The stem of a TI verb like mishkamu is the part mishk- found before the endings -amu or -en.
This type of TI verb is formed by adding to the TI stem personal prefixes, if there are any, and the thematic suffixes (-e-, -am- or -a-), followed by the endings (person/tense/mood). For example: tshitapatamu s/he looks at it, tshitshitapaten you look at it, tshitapatamupan s/he looked at it.
| uapatamu | s/he sees it | nuapaten | I see it |
| tutamu | s/he does it | tshituten | you do it |
| puatamu | s/he dreams of it | puatamuat | they dream of it |
| kushtamu | s/he is afraid of it | nikushtenan | we are afraid of it |
| minuatamu | s/he likes it | minuatamupan | s/he liked it |
| tshissenitamu | s/he knows it | tshitshisseniteti | you knew it |
| shepitamu | s/he opens it quickly | shepita! | open it quickly! |
| kunamu | s/he knocks it over | apu kunaman | I didn’t knock it over |
| akunamu | s/he photographs it | akuna! | photograph it! |
| atinamu | s/he changes it | nika atinen | I will change it |
| naikamu | s/he cleans it | tshinaikenan | we are cleaning it |
| mishkamu | s/he finds it | mishkamuat | they find it |
| ushamu | s/he boils it | ushamupan | s/he boiled it |
| pashamu | s/he dries it | pashetau! | let’s dry it! |
| itishamu | s/he cuts it in a certain way | itishamińua | s/he (obv) cuts it in a certain way |