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yo'kwen

Dictionary entry

yo'kwen • adv • there

Lexicon record # 4151 | Source reference: R267

Sentence examples (7)

  1. Pel' soo te'nes 'ee kwesee yo'kwen 'o lekon', heechoo 'eekee lekon'.
    He got really drunk and fell, and he fell down.

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    — Jimmie James, Sentences (LC-01-1) (LC-01-1, 2007)

  2. Yo'kwen soot'os! Chegeyonah.
    Go away! You're getting on my nerves.

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    — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 6: "Go get it" (GT3-06, 2003)

  3. Yo'kwen soot'os.
    Get out of here.

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    — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 7: "Okay. Expressions" (GT3-07, 2003)

  4. Yo'kwen loot'es!
    Throw it away!

    — Jessie Van Pelt, Sentences in Jessie Exline's Yurok Dictionary (YD, 1980s)

  5. Nekah yo'kwen me laaye'moh; soo mee' wo skewok kee 'ne-newoo kue 'ue-pelepek'.
    We passed by there; so much did we not want to see the fighting.

    — Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)

  6. Yo'kwen loot'es koweesh!
    Throw the stick away!

    — Mary Marshall, Sentences (ES) (ES, 1927)

  7. Yo'kwen kee lootek' koweesh.
    I'll throw the stick away.

    — Mary Marshall, Sentences (ES) (ES, 1927)