Karuk Dictionary and Texts
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Vina Smith, Sentences with relative clauses, negation, commands (2011)

Publication details: Unpublished (recorded by Andrew Garrett and Line Mikkelsen on December 21, 2011)

Project identifier: VS-09


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[1]

pa'ávansa panámniik úkrii.

The man lives in Orleans.

[2]

íp nimáh pa'ávansa.

I saw the man.

[3]

pa'ávansa íp nimáhat Orleans úkrii.

I saw the man who lives in Orleans.

[4]

pa'ávansa Orleans úkrii îin íp namáhat.

The man who lives in Orleans saw me.

[5]

pa'ávansa Orleans úkrii íp îin namáhat.

The man who lives in Orleans saw me.

[6]

pa'ávansa îin néemustih Orleans aramsîiprinti.

The man who came from Orleans saw me.

[7]

pa'ávansa Orleans aramsîiprintih iim îin néemusti.

The man who came from Orleans saw me.

[8]

pa'ávansa tóo kyívishrih.

The man fell.

[9]

pa'ávansa paOrleans aramsîiprintih ukyívishrih.

The man who lives in Orleans fell.

[10]

vaa pa'ávansa nipítapti.

I know that man.

[11]

vaa nipítaptih pa'ávansa panámniik aramsîiprinti.

I know the man who lives in Orleans.

[12]

vaa íp nichuphûunishtih pa'ávansa.

I talked to that man.

[13]

nichuphûunish pa'ávansa paOrleans úkrii.

I talked to the man who lives in Orleans.

[14]

pa'ávansa îin nipítapti.

The man knows me.

[15]

yupsítanich tóo xrára.

The baby cried.

[16]

naa tá neexrára.

I am crying.

[17]

naa puneexráratihara.

I am not crying.

[18]

payupsítanich puxrárati.

The baby is not crying.

[19]

xáyfaat ixrárati.

Don't cry.

[20]

xáyfaat ixrára.

Don't cry.

[21]

naa nixráreesh.

I am going to cry.

[22]

xáyfaat íkshah.

Don't laugh.

[23]

naa níkshaati.

I am laughing.

[24]

naa tá níkshah.

I am laughing.

[25]

tá kunikyámiichvunaa.

They are all playing around.