This booklet shows the reader the Cree root word méchiso, meaning to eat or the act of eating in English. Méchiso is a verb, a describing word. This booklet will show how to conjugate the word. Conjugation is the change that takes place in a verb to express tense, mood, person, and so on. Verbs change as they are used, most notably with different people (you, I, we) and different time (now, later, before). Conjugating verbs essentially means altering them into different forms to provide context.