Ararahih'urípih
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ikvar / ikvan- to buy

Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #2176 | revised Dec 09 2014

ikvar / ikvan- • V • to buy

Derivatives (3)
ikvárar "to use to buy; to pay"
ikvárar "to go to buy"
ikváraruk "to come to buy"

Source: WB 529, p.341

Note: Equiv. to ikvárish.

  • kishakeevráriik sáanva ukvárareesh. She's going to Hoopa to buy clothes. [Reference: KV]
  • xára mít puxútihaphat kíri apxantínihich vaa úkvar pávaa kumá'as. Long ago they didn't want white people to buy that kind of stone. [Reference: TK 152.23]

Sentence examples (11)

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  1. ní-kvaar-eesh   uum   pa-thyur  
    1s(>3)-buy-FUT   3.SG   the-car  
    I am going to buy a car.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about driving and directions (SD-VS-02) | read full text
    Spoken by Sonny Davis | Download | Play

  2. ní-kvaar-eesh   pa-thyur  
    1s(>3)-buy-FUT   the-car  
    I'm going to buy a car.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about driving and directions (SD-VS-02) | read full text
    Spoken by Sonny Davis | Download | Play

  3. pee-thyur   ní-kvaar-eesh  
    the-car   1s(>3)-buy-FUT  
    I am going to buy a car.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about driving and directions (SD-VS-02) | read full text
    Spoken by Vina Smith | Download | Play

  4. ithyur   ní-kvaar-eesh  
    car   1s(>3)-buy-FUT  
    I am going to buy a car.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about driving and directions (SD-VS-02) | read full text
    Spoken by Vina Smith | Download | Play

  5. ni-vâaram-eesh   Medford   pa-thyuru   chími   ní-kvaar-eesh  
    1s(>3)-go-FUT   Medford   the-car   soon   1s(>3)-buy-FUT  
    I am going to Medford to buy a car.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about driving and directions (SD-VS-02) | read full text
    Spoken by Sonny Davis | Download | Play

  6. Medford   ni-vâaram-eesh   ithyuru   ní-kvaar-eesh  
    Medford   1s(>3)-go-FUT   car   1s(>3)-buy-FUT  
    I am going to Medford to buy a car.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about driving and directions (SD-VS-02) | read full text
    Spoken by Vina Smith | Download | Play

  7. fâat   kum-éethyur   p-ee-kvár-eesh  
    what   3sPOSS-car   NOMZ-2s(>3)-go.to.buy-FUT  
    What kind of car are you gonna buy?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions (VS-16) | read full text
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  8. káruma   káru   taay   u-'ôorahi-ti   pa-'ánav   pa-tá   ní-kvar   pa-ni-'ákih-ti  
    in.fact   also   much   3s(>3)-cost-DUR   the-medicine   NOMZ-PERF   1s(>3)-buy   NOMZ-1s(>3)-give.(things).to-DUR  
    And in fact it cost a lot, the medicine that I bought, that I was giving him.
    Source: Violet Super, Violet's Dog (VSu-03) | read full text

  9. u-pêer   pa-mí-'arama   ni-kvárakuk-tih  
    3s(>3)-say.to   the-2sPOSS-child   1s(>3)-come.to.buy-DUR  
    He said, "I am coming to buy your child."
    Source: Lottie Beck, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-18) | read full text

  10. xás   u-thvuyâana-ti   ípa   kóo   kun-ípeer-at   ikvan  
    then   3s(>3)-call.by.name-DUR   PAST   all   3pl(>3s)-say.to-PAST   buy  
    And he was naming all that they had told him to buy.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "How the Rube Family Was Named" (WB_KL-66) | read full text

  11. xás   koovúra   t-u-p-ipshinvárihva   p-éethvuy   ípa   kun-ípeer-at   ikvan  
    then   all   PERF-3s(>3)-ITER-forget   the-name   PAST   3pl(>3s)-say.to-PAST   buy  
    And he forgot all the names that they had told him to buy.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "How the Rube Family Was Named" (WB_KL-66) | read full text