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lexicon ID #1456 | revised Nov 07 2014
if • ADJ • true
Derivative (1)
ifuyâach "that's right; really true"
Source: WB 408, p.335
- púvaa ífhara. That's not true. [Reference: TK 216.2]
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xás u-pí-ti vúra if koovúra vaa u-músahi-ti ôok pa-nanú-'uup pa-nini-'ávan mu-krívraam then 3s(>3)-say-DUR Intensive true all that 3s(>3)-look-DUR here the-1plPOSS-possession the-1sPOSS-husband 3sPOSS-house And she said, "It's true, everything looks like our things here, in my husband's house." Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Marries His Own Daughter" (WB_KL-16) | read full textpa-mu-túnviiv ú-peen-vunaa t-u-'ifuyâach-ha the-3sPOSS-children 3s(>3)-say.to-PL PERF-3s(>3)-that's.right-DENOM She told her children, "It's really true. Source: Lottie Beck, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-23) | read full textxás pa-'avansáxiich u-'aapúnma vúra if then the-boy 3s(>3)-know Intensive true And the boy knew it was true. Source: Julia Starritt, "The Bear and the Deer" (WB_KL-32) | read full textkári xás u-piip ifuyâach húm pa-ta-na-koohímachva then then 3s(>3)-say that's.right or NOMZ-PERF-2s/3s>1s-pity And he said, "Is it true that you grieve for me?" Source: Mamie Offield, "A Trip to the Land of the Dead" (WB_KL-58) | read full textkári xás u-piip pa-'íf-haak víri chími nu-pêen p-ée-kuph-eesh then then 3s(>3)-say NOMZ-true-when so soon 1pl(>3)-say.to NOMZ-2s(>3)-do-FUT And he said, "If it is true, let me tell you what to do. Source: Mamie Offield, "A Trip to the Land of the Dead" (WB_KL-58) | read full texthínu páy vúra if surprise Intensive true Sure enough, it was true. Source: Lottie Beck, "The Kidnapped Child" (WB_KL-61) | read full textíi kári xás kun-xus púya íf puxích t-oo kúha kíri xuus kun-'uum oh! then then 3pl(>3s)-think and.so true very.much PERF-3s(>3) be.sick I.wish thought 3pl(>3s)-arrive And they were thinking that she's really sick, that she needs to get doctored. Source: Nettie Ruben, "Blue Jay as Doctor" (WB_LA78.1-004a) | read full text
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