cohuia = Vt3 = to buy
cohuilia Vt3 = to buy for
tahtli, tahtzintli = father

chihua Vt2= to make*
chihuilia, chihuia Vt3 = to make for
calli = house
*-Chihua is a type-2 verb, which drops the final vowel (a) in the preterit. Remember that the spelling hu (pronounced w) becomes uh when it is at the end of the syllable. The preterit of chihua is therefore chiuh.

 
tlacalaquilli = tax

chöca Vi1 = to cry

cohuia = to buy
pähuaci Vt2 = to cook (steam)
ichtequi Vt2 = to steal
cintli = corn
xocoätölli = corn beverage
cihuatl = woman, wife

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Reverential Applicatives

A reflexive prefix added to an applicative verb makes a "reverential" form, considered very eloquent and used extremely often. (Most applicatives in Nahuatl occur in this construction.)

Essentially, the applicative ending adds an object and the reflexive prefix absorbs it again, leaving the meaning the same except for how all-fired elegant it is because of the excess syllables. (The easiest approach to such an ending is to look for the reflexive and cross both of them out! Remember to restore any spare vowels that were casualties of the process.)

ni.c.chihua = I make it

ni.c.no.chihu.ilia = ni.c.chihua = I make it

ölini = she moves

mölinilia = ölini = she moves

If the verb is already applicative, it may still be made be made reverential by adding the reflexive prefix plus a second (!) applicative suffix.

In most cases, there is little point to reflecting the reverential applicative in an English translation, but it obviously flavors the tone of the Nahuatl original. (Similarly redundantly lengthened verbs in English are folksy rather than elegant: "She's gone to the garden to fetch herself in some corn." "He apologized himself blue in the face.")

chihua Vt = to make
cuica Vi = to sing
Ixca = cook, bake
nantzin = mother
nacAtl = meat (possessed: -nac)