Ararahih'urípih
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man'áta maybe, perhaps, I don't know

Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #4236 | revised Nov 14 2014

man'áta PCL • maybe, perhaps, I don't know Variant: manâa.

Derivation man áta
why... maybe

Source: WB 966.1, p.366


Sentence examples (6)


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  1. man'áta   pa-kéevniikich   uum   pufâat   -kyav  
    maybe   the-old.woman.(dimin.)   3.SG   nothing   3sPOSS-making  
    Maybe an old woman, she had nothing to do.
    Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
    Spoken by Grace Davis | Download | Play
  2. fâat   vaa   vúra   vaa   -vaa   kupí-tih-an   man'áta   axraas  
    what   that   Intensive   that   NOMZ-that   do-DUR-Participial   maybe   gopher  
    It is something that is doing that, maybe a gopher.
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, They Knew That Seeds Will Grow (JPH_TKIC-IV.3) | read full text
  3. man'áta  
    maybe  
    I don't know.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20b) | read full text
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  4. kári   xás   kun-piip   man'áta  
    then   then   3pl(>3s)-say   maybe  
    And they said, "I don't know."
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Origin of the Pikiawish" (WB_KL-48) | read full text
  5. kári   xás   u-xús   man'áta   pákuri   ni-kyâa-vish  
    then   then   3s(>3)-think   maybe   song   1s(>3)-make-FUT  
    And she thought, "Maybe I'll make a song.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Medicine for the Return of a Sweetheart" (WB_KL-49) | read full text
  6. xás   u-píip   man'áta      pu-na-pikrôok-ara  
    then   3s(>3)-say   maybe   PERF   NEG-1s(>3)-remember-NEG  
    And he said, "I don’t know, I've forgotten."
    Source: Julia Starritt, "How the Rube Family Was Named" (WB_KL-66) | read full text