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1. xas   u-pakúriihva   "súnunuk   á-ni-nak   ki-yánee   náa   pu-váfish   na-vishtan-tih-ara   then   3s(>3)-sing.songs   "secretly   á-ni-nak   ki-yánee   1sg.   NEG-liver   1s(>3)-like.(food)-DUR-NEG

   And he started singing, "In secret...Tra-la-la...I don't like liver. Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text

2. xas   pa-pihnîich   u-píip   "naa   ník   pa-ni-pakurîihv-eesh   then   the-old.man   3s(>3)-say   "1sg.   a.little   NOMZ-1s(>3)-sing.songs-FUT

   Then the old man said, "I will sing the song." Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text

3. xás   uumkun   váa   vúra   kích   kun-kupí-tih-anik   pa-kun-pakurîihva-naa-tih-anik   pa-'ávans-as   pa-kun-pakurîihva-naa-tih-anik   ikriripan-'ikmaháchraam   then   they   so   Intensive   only   3pl(>3s)-do-DUR-ANC   NOMZ-3pl(>3s)-sing.songs-PL-DUR-ANC   the-man-PL   NOMZ-3pl(>3s)-sing.songs-PL-DUR-ANC   placename-sweathouse

   All they did was sing songs, the men, they used to sing in Amekyaram sweathouse. Source: Yaas, "How Grizzly Bear Got his Ears Burnt Off" (JPH_KT-01a) | read full text

4. xás   koovúra   kun-pakúriihva-naa   kun-ipêer   ôok   ichvánihich   tá   nú-fchuy   then   all   3pl(>3s)-sing.songs-PL   3pl(>3s)-say.to   here   little.bit   PERF   1pl(>3)-be.crowded

   Then all sang. They told him: "Come a little this way, we are crowded." Source: Yaas, "How Grizzly Bear Got his Ears Burnt Off" (JPH_KT-01a) | read full text

5. chavúra   koovúra   kun-pakúriihva-naa   kúkuum   finally   all   3pl(>3s)-sing.songs-PL   again

   Then they were all singing again. Source: Yaas, "How Grizzly Bear Got his Ears Burnt Off" (JPH_KT-01a) | read full text

6. úma   vúra   vaa   kun-pakúriihva-naa-ti   imfira-yâak   emphatic(?)   Intensive   so   3pl(>3s)-sing.songs-PL-DUR   heat-good.place

   Just the same they kept on singing in the heat. Source: Yaas, "How Grizzly Bear Got his Ears Burnt Off" (JPH_KT-01a) | read full text

7. pa-'áraar   t-u-pakurîihva-haak   ikriripan-pákurih   máruk-ninay   váa   xás   vúra   u-kvíip-tih   payváheem   váa   u-kupí-tih   the-human   PERF-3s(>3)-sing.songs-when   placename-song   uphill-around   so   then   Intensive   3s(>3)-run-DUR   nowadays   so   3s(>3)-do-DUR

   Whenever a person sings Amekyaram sweathouse songs in mountain places anywhere, he runs away, he does so now. Source: Yaas, "How Grizzly Bear Got his Ears Burnt Off" (JPH_KT-01a) | read full text

8. xás   achvúun   u-ppiip   vaa   vúra   ôok   kun-pakkúriihvu-tih-eesh   nani-pákkuri   xáat   naa   pu-'ôok-hara   then   hookbill.salmon   3s(>3)-say   so   Intensive   here   3pl(>3s)-sing.songs-DUR-FUT   1sPOSS-song   may   1sg.   NEG-here-NEG

   Then Hookbill said: "They will be singing my song, no matter if I am not here." Source: Yaas, "How Buzzard Became Bald" (JPH_KT-01b) | read full text

9. uum   vúra   vaa   kári   kyáan   kun-pakúriihvu-ti   pa-mu-pákkuri   achvuun   3.SG   Intensive   so   then   there   3pl(>3s)-sing.songs-DUR   the-3sPOSS-song   hookbill.salmon

   They are still singing Hookbill's song there [in the Amekyaram sweathouse]. Source: Yaas, "How Buzzard Became Bald" (JPH_KT-01b) | read full text

10. xas   u-pakurihva   then   3s(>3)-sing.songs

    Then she sang: Source: Abner's mother, "Crow Woman and her Neglectful Husband" (JPH_KT-08) | read full text

11. chimi   kyan-pakúriihv-i'   soon   1s(>3)-sing.songs-IMPER

    Let me sing. Source: Fritz Hansen, "Coyote Falls through the Living-House Roof Hole" (JPH_KT-12) | read full text

12. pa-púsihich   ni-thítiim-ti   u-pakurîihvu-tih   the-cat.(dimin.)   1s(>3)-hear-DUR   3s(>3)-sing.songs-DUR

    I hear the cat purring. Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about perception, animals, verb tenses (SD-VS-01) | read full text Spoken by Sonny Davis | Download | Play

13. pa-púsihich   u-pakurîihvu-tih   the-cat.(dimin.)   3s(>3)-sing.songs-DUR

    The cat is purring. Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about perception, animals, verb tenses (SD-VS-01) | read full text Spoken by Sonny Davis | Download | Play

14. tá   ni-thítiv   pa-púsihich   u-pakurîihvu-tih   PERF   1s(>3)-hear   the-cat.(dimin.)   3s(>3)-sing.songs-DUR

    I hear the cat purring. Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about perception, animals, verb tenses (SD-VS-01) | read full text Spoken by Sonny Davis | Download | Play

15. tá   ni-thítiv   pa-púsihich   u-pakurîihvu-tih   PERF   1s(>3)-hear   the-cat.(dimin.)   3s(>3)-sing.songs-DUR

    I hear the cat purring. Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about perception, animals, verb tenses (SD-VS-01) | read full text Spoken by Vina Smith | Download | Play

16. tá   nee-kvúrishrih   pa-ni-pakúriihvu-tih.   PERF   1s-be.tired   NOMZ-1s(>3)-sing.songs-DUR.

    I am tired of singing. Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about personal states (VS-04) | read full text Spoken by Vina Smith | Download | Play

17. tá   nee-kvúrishrih   puxích   pa-ni-pakúriihvu-tih.   PERF   1s-be.tired   very.much   NOMZ-1s(>3)-sing.songs-DUR.

    I am really tired of singing. Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about personal states (VS-04) | read full text Spoken by Vina Smith | Download | Play

18. naa   ni-pakurîihvu-tih   1s(>3)   1s(>3)-sing.songs-DUR

    I sing. Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with verb paradigms, words for accent (VS-11) | read full text Spoken by Vina Smith | Download | Play

19. naa   pu-na-pákuriihvu-tih-ara   1s(>3)   NEG-1s(>3)-sing.songs-DUR-NEG

    I do not sing. Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with verb paradigms, words for accent (VS-11) | read full text Spoken by Vina Smith | Download | Play

20. naa   vúra   pu-na-pakurîihvu-tih-ara   1sg.   Intensive   NEG-1s(>3)-sing.songs-DUR-NEG

    I never sing. Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with verb paradigms, words for accent (VS-11) | read full text Spoken by Vina Smith | Download | Play

21. pu-na-pakurîihvu-tih-ara   NEG-1s(>3)-sing.songs-DUR-NEG

    I don't sing. Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with verb paradigms, words for accent (VS-11) | read full text Spoken by Vina Smith | Download | Play

22. púyava   koovúra   tá   kun-pakúriihvu-naa   you.see   all   PERF   3pl(>3s)-sing.songs-PL

    So they all sang. Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Homecoming" (WB_KL-02) | read full text

23. táay   tá   kun-pakúriihvu-naa   much   PERF   3pl(>3s)-sing.songs-PL

    They sang a lot. Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Homecoming" (WB_KL-02) | read full text

24. itahar-éekxaram   kun-ivyih-vará-koo-tih   xás   kun-pakúriihvu-naa-tih   ten-night   3pl(>3s)-go.(pl.)-in.through-to-DUR   then   3pl(>3s)-sing.songs-PL-DUR

    For ten nights they traveled through to there, and they sang. Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Homecoming" (WB_KL-02) | read full text

25. kári   xás   kári   ta'ítam   u-pakurîihv-aheen   then   then   then   so   3s(>3)-sing.songs-ANT

    And so they sang. Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Homecoming" (second telling) (WB_KL-02a) | read full text Spoken by Nettie Ruben | Download | Play

26. xás   u-'árihroov   u-pakurîihvu-tih   then   3s(>3)-go.upriver   3s(>3)-sing.songs-DUR

    And he went upriver, he was singing. Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text

27. xás   yanava   káan   ára   u-píkniihvu-tih   u-pakurîihvu-tih   then   visible   there   person   3s(>3)-sweat.self-DUR   3s(>3)-sing.songs-DUR

    And he saw a person was sweating himself there, he was singing. Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text

28. xasík   ík   i-pakurîihvu-tih-eesh   ik   then.(future)   must   2s(>3)-sing.songs-DUR-FUT   must

    You must be singing." Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text

29. xás   ta'ítam   ú-kriihv-aheen   pa-sípnuuk   u-pakurîihvu-tih   then   so   3s(>3)-fish.with.set-net-ANT   the-storage.basket   3s(>3)-sing.songs-DUR

    Then the storage basket fished, it was singing. Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text

30. yánava   káan   ú-kriihvu-tih   u-pakurîihvu-tih   visible   there   3s(>3)-fish.with.set-net-DUR   3s(>3)-sing.songs-DUR

    They saw him there fishing, he was singing. Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text

31. xás   yúruk   pa-kun-pávyiihma   tá   kun-piip   uum   vúra   pihnêefich   kâam   ú-kriihvu-tih   u-pakurîihvu-tih   then   downriver   the-3pl(>3s)-go.back.to.(pl.)   PERF   3pl(>3s)-say   3.SG   Intensive   coyote   little.upriver   3s(>3)-fish.with.set-net-DUR   3s(>3)-sing.songs-DUR

    And when they got back downriver, they said, "It's Coyote upriver fishing, he's singing. Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text

32. yánava   káan   kích   sípnuuk   ú-krii   u-pakurîihvu-tih   visible   there   only   storage.basket   3s(>3)-live   3s(>3)-sing.songs-DUR

    They saw it was just a storage basket sitting there, it was singing. Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text

33. xás   u-thítiv   akâayva   u-pakurîihvu-tih   then   3s(>3)-hear   anyone   3s(>3)-sing.songs-DUR

    And he heard it, someone was singing. Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Trades Songs" (WB_KL-07) | read full text

34. uum   káru   u-pakurîihvu-ti   p-oo-'áhoo-tih   haninuvêe   naa hanuvêe naa   3.SG   also   3s(>3)-sing.songs-DUR   NOMZ-3s(>3)-go-DUR   haninuvêe   naa hanuvêe naa

    He was singing too as he traveled, "haninuvêe naa hanuvêe naa." Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Trades Songs" (WB_KL-07) | read full text

35. vúra   vaa   u-thítiim-ti   p-oo-pakurîihvu-tih   Intensive   so   3s(>3)-hear-DUR   NOMZ-3s(>3)-sing.songs-DUR

    He heard (someone) singing like that. Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Trades Songs" (WB_KL-07) | read full text

36. hôoyva   kúnish   kun-pakúriihvu-tih   somewhere   sort.of   3pl(>3s)-sing.songs-DUR

    Somewhere they were sort of singing. Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Trades Songs" (WB_KL-07) | read full text

37. vúra   vaa   u-pakurîihvu-ti   uum   pa-mu-pákurih   haninuvêe naa hanuvêe naa   Intensive   so   3s(>3)-sing.songs-DUR   3.SG   the-3sPOSS-song   haninuvêe naa hanuvêe naa

    He was singing his song that way, "haninuvêe naa hanuvêe naa." Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Trades Songs" (WB_KL-07) | read full text

38. vúra   vaa   u-thítiim-ti   p-oo-pakurîihvu-tih   vúra   tá   ûumukich   kitâana kitâana íiyaa   Intensive   so   3s(>3)-hear-DUR   NOMZ-3s(>3)-sing.songs-DUR   Intensive   PERF   near   kitâana kitâana íiyaa

    He heard the singing that way just close by, "kitâana kitâana îyaa." Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Trades Songs" (WB_KL-07) | read full text

39. u-pakurîihvu-tih   kitâana kitâana íiyaa   3s(>3)-sing.songs-DUR   kitâana kitâana íiyaa

    He was singing, "kitâana kitâana íiya." Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Trades Songs" (WB_KL-07) | read full text

40. u-xus   íf   tá   na-'ûuri   pa-ni-pakurîihvu-tih   3s(>3)-think   truly   PERF   1s-be.unwilling   NOMZ-1s(>3)-sing.songs-DUR

    He thought, "I'm really tired of singing. Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Trades Songs" (WB_KL-07) | read full text

41. kári   xás   pihnêefich   u-'áhoo-tih   u-pakurîihvu-tih   then   then   coyote   3s(>3)-go-DUR   3s(>3)-sing.songs-DUR

    So Coyote was traveling, he was singing. Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Trades Songs and Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-09) | read full text

42. uumkun   káru   kun-pakúriihva   they   also   3pl(>3s)-sing.songs

    They were singing too. Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Trades Songs and Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-09) | read full text

43. kári   xás   pa-pihnêefich   u-'ípahoo   u-pakurîihvu-ti   pa-mukun-pákurih   then   then   the-coyote   3s(>3)-go.back   3s(>3)-sing.songs-DUR   the-3plPOSS-song

    And Coyote went on, he was singing their song. Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Trades Songs and Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-09) | read full text

44. xás   u-piip   puxích   ík   vúra   ku-pakúriihv-eesh   then   3s(>3)-say   very.much   must   Intensive   2pl(>3)-sing.songs-FUT

    And he said, "You must sing loudly." Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote as Doctor" (WB_KL-11) | read full text

45. ta'ítam   súva   t-u-pakúriihva   so   listen!   PERF-3s(>3)-sing.songs

    So he heard them singing. Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote as Doctor" (WB_KL-11) | read full text

46. xás   u-piip   naa   vúra   nini-pákuri   ni-pakúriihv-eesh   pa-ni-'éethkaanv-ahaak   then   3s(>3)-say   1sg.   Intensive   1sPOSS-song   1s(>3)-sing.songs-FUT   NOMZ-1s(>3)-shuffle.(cards)-when

    And he said, "I'm going to sing my song as I shuffle the 'cards'." Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Gambling Song" (WB_KL-13) | read full text Spoken by Chester Pepper | Download | Play

47. ta'ítam   u-pakurîihva-heen   so   3s(>3)-sing.songs-ANT

    And he sang. Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Gambling Song" (WB_KL-13) | read full text Spoken by Chester Pepper | Download | Play

48. xás   u-pakurîihvu-tih   then   3s(>3)-sing.songs-DUR

    So he sang. Source: Lottie Beck, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-18) | read full text

49. iinâak   vaa   kích   u-thítiim-ti   p-oo-pakurîihvu-ti   yôotva   t-u-'iiv'íiv   íkamish   t-u-'iiv'íiv   indoors   so   only   3s(>3)-hear-DUR   NOMZ-3s(>3)-sing.songs-DUR   hurray!   PERF-3s(>3)-die   son-in-law.(dimin.)   PERF-3s(>3)-die

    Inside he just heard her singing, "Hurray, he's dead, son-in-law is dead!" Source: Lottie Beck, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-18) | read full text

50. p-oo-pakurîihvu-tih   u-pí-tih   âanxus   itvaratvárat   NOMZ-3s(>3)-sing.songs-DUR   3s(>3)-say-DUR   weasel   itvaratvárat

    When she sang, she said, "âanxus itvaratvárat." Source: Lottie Beck, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-18) | read full text

51. kári   xás   pa-kéevniikich   t-u'-árihish   t-u-pakúriihva   âanaxus   itvaratvárah   then   then   the-old.woman.(dimin.)   PERF-3s(>3)-sing   PERF-3s(>3)-sing.songs   weasel   itvaratvárah

    Then the old woman sang, she sang "âanaxus itvaratvárah." Source: Mamie Offield, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-19) | read full text

52. kári   xás   âanaxus   uum   káru   t-u-pakúriihva   kéevniikich   tiiptíip'aahrishuk    then   then   weasel   3.SG   also   PERF-3s(>3)-sing.songs   old.woman.(dimin.)   tiiptíip'aahrishuk

    And Weasel sang, too, "kéevniikich tiiptíip'aahrishuk." Source: Mamie Offield, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-19) | read full text

53. xás   kári   pa-'ávans-as   pa-tá   kun-'ípak   ikxúrar   yánava   pa-pihnîich   u-pakurîihvu-tih   then   then   the-man-PL   NOMZ-PERF   3pl(>3s)-come.back   evening   visible   the-old.man   3s(>3)-sing.songs-DUR

    And when the men returned in the evening, they saw the old man was singing. Source: Julia Starritt, "The Hair in the Soup" (WB_KL-21) | read full text

54. vaa   u-kupa-pakurîihv-ahi-tih   cháfich   kích   na-víshtaan-tih   so   3s(>3)-MODAL-sing.songs-Modal-DUR   bone.to.gnaw   only   1s-like.(food)-DUR

    He was singing that, "I just want a bone to gnaw on." Source: Julia Starritt, "The Hair in the Soup" (WB_KL-21) | read full text

55. xás   pa-pihnîich   vaa   vúra   u-pakurîihvu-tih   cháfich   kích   na-víshtaan-tih   then   the-old.man   so   Intensive   3s(>3)-sing.songs-DUR   bone.to.gnaw   only   1s-like.(food)-DUR

    And the old man was singing that way, "I just want a bone to chew on." Source: Julia Starritt, "The Hair in the Soup" (WB_KL-21) | read full text

56. kári   xás   siit   u-pakurîihvu-tih   then   then   mouse   3s(>3)-sing.songs-DUR

    Then Mouse was singing. Source: Mamie Offield, "Duck Hawk and His Wife" (WB_KL-27) | read full text

57. xanpuchíniishveenach   u-pakurîihvu-tih   hummingbird   3s(>3)-sing.songs-DUR

    Hummingbird was singing. Source: Nettie Ruben, "Blue Jay As Doctor" (WB_KL-29) | read full text

58. xás   u-pakúriihva   áta   naa   kûufayu   áta   naa   kêeshisha   then   3s(>3)-sing.songs   maybe   1sg.   kûufayu   maybe   1sg.   kêeshisha

    And he sang, "áta naa kûufayu, áta naa kêeshisha." Source: Mamie Offield, "How Deer Meat Was Lost and Regained" (WB_KL-33) | read full text

59. fâat   kúth   p-ee-pakurîihvu-tih   what   because.of   NOMZ-2s(>3)-sing.songs-DUR

    Why are you singing?" Source: Mamie Offield, "How Deer Meat Was Lost and Regained" (WB_KL-33) | read full text

60. kári   xás   u-pakúriihva   then   then   3s(>3)-sing.songs

    And she sang. Source: Nettie Ruben, "Medicine for the Return of a Sweetheart" (WB_KL-49) | read full text

61. ta'ítam   u-pakurîihv-aheen   so   3s(>3)-sing.songs-ANT

    So she sang. Source: Nettie Ruben, "Medicine for the Return of a Sweetheart" (WB_KL-49) | read full text

62. yánava   u-pakurîihvu-tih   pa-kâanimich   visible   3s(>3)-sing.songs-DUR   the-poor

    They saw the poor one was singing. Source: Nettie Ruben, "Medicine to Get a Husband" (WB_KL-50) | read full text

63. kun-pakúriihvu-tih   xáyfaat   nu-táapxuv   3pl(>3s)-sing.songs-DUR   don't!   1pl(>3)-capsize

    They were singing, "Let us not capsize!" Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text

64. mâaka   tá   kun-pakúriihvu-naa   little.uphill   PERF   3pl(>3s)-sing.songs-PL

    Further uphill, they sang. Source: Maggie Charley, "The Pikiawish at Clear Creek" (WB_KL-84) | read full text