Dictionary entry
ne-ko-muey • vn • know how, be able • n • ability
Lexicon record # 2113 | Source references: FS(B209) R228 JE3
Special meaning or use
mos ne-ko-muey don't know how JE43
Sentence examples (15)
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Mos kol' ne-ko-muey kee 'weche'-loh-tek' ne-puey kue 'nepee-cho-wos 'weson-kok'.
Nobody makes smoked salmon as well as my grandfather does.
| Download — Georgiana Trull, Sentences (LC-01-2) (LC-01-2, 2007)
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Ne-ko-muey k'e-saa-'a-go-chek'.
You know how to speak Yurok. | Download | Password required — Jimmie James, Sentences (AG-07-1) (AG-07-1, 2006)
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Skuey' soo t'p'ohl-kwek' ... ne-ko-muey.
I understand it very well. | Download | Password required — Jimmie James, Elicited Sentences About Emphasis (EJW-01-1-4, 2006)
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Ne-ko-muey chee-kol' 'ner-serr-hlerh.
I know how to do things. | Download | Password required — Aileen Figueroa, Sentences (AG-02-2) (AG-02-2, 2004)
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Yo' ne-ko-muey.
S/he knows how to do it. | Download | Password required — Aileen Figueroa, Sentences (AG-02-2) (AG-02-2, 2004)
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Ne-ko-muey kee k'epe-mek' ke-goh hes?
Do you know how to make acorn soup? | Download — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 3: "Are you hungry?" (GT3-03, 2003)
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'Iee, ne-ko-muey 'nepew.
Yes, I know how to cook. | Download — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 3: "Are you hungry?" (GT3-03, 2003)
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Ne-ko-muey k'eho-lee-mek' kue lue-mon hes?
Do you know how to make eel baskets? | Download — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 9: "What are you making? Making, Doing, Fishing" (GT3-09, 2003)
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Ne-ko-muey hes k'er-'er'-gerp chpey-yuer'?
Do you like to tell stories? | Download | Password required — Aileen Figueroa, Elicited Sentences (LJC-03-1-1b, 2001)
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Ne-kah ne-ko-muey 'ner-'er'-gerp chpey-yuer'.
We like to tell stories. | Download | Password required — Aileen Figueroa, Elicited Sentences (LJC-03-1-1b, 2001)
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... mos ne-ko-muey... pop, 'oohl 'ue-pop.
.. don't know how ... bread, Indian bread. | Download | Password required — Violet Moore, Sentences (VM1) (VM1, 1994)
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'O gem', Kwelekw, wo-'oot ne-ko-muey.
He said, Well, she knows how.— Florence Shaughnessy, "Driving My Father to the Doctor as a Child" (LA181-4, 1986)
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Wo'oot ne-ko-muey kee 'ue- ke-ro-moh kue wer'-yers.
That girl knows how to drive.— Florence Shaughnessy, "Driving My Father to the Doctor as a Child" (LA181-4, 1986)
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Ne-ko-muey 'no-'o-pek'.
I know how to build a fire.— Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences in Berman's "Supplement to Robins" (HB, 1970-1972)
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Nek keet-kwe-la ne-ko-muey 'ne-saa-'a-go-chek'.
I can still speak Yurok.— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)