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1. xas    upíip    "vup'áfiv    tákurukrivan    hitíhaan    íp    napáknitsurunat    then    he.said    base.of.the.neck    coiled    always    PAST    I.plucked.it.off

   And the old man answered, "I pulled if off out of the back of my neck where the hair is so curly, you know." Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text

2. xás    vúra    uumkun    hitíhaan    pakaan    kunivyíihmutihanik    peekxaréeyav    váa    kumá'ii    pakun'úuhyanatihanik    hûut    áta    pakunkupítiheesh    yaas'ára    then    Intensive    they    always    there    they.went.    the.First.People    so    because.of    they.were.talking.    how    maybe    they.will.do    rich.person

   The First People went in there all the time, since they were talking over what humans were going to do. Source: Yaas, "How Grizzly Bear Got his Ears Burnt Off" (JPH_KT-01a) | read full text

3. xás    úum    vúra    hitíhaan    poopítih    "kahyúras    nivâarameesh    íshpuk    nipachnútareesh    then    3.SG    Intensive    always    he.said    Klamath.Lakes    I.will.go    dentalium.shells    I.will.go.to.suck

   Then he (Coyote) said all the time: "I am going to go to the Klamath Lakes to suck out dentalia." Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Coyote Starts for Klamath Lakes, East Roasted Grasshoppers, Floats Down River and Marries Two Girls" (JPH_KT-05) | read full text

4. xas    uum    vúra    hitíhaan    kumasúpaa    poopȋiriihiti    pamu'ávan    paxuun    then    3.SG    Intensive    always    its.day    that.she.was.saving.it.for.him    her.husband    the.acorn.soup

   She was saving acorn soup all the time every day for her man. Source: Abner's mother, "Crow Woman and her Neglectful Husband" (JPH_KT-08) | read full text

5. uum    vúra    vaa    hitíhaan    ukupítti'    3.SG    Intensive    so    always    he.was.doing

   That was his job. Source: Fritz Hansen, "Coyote Falls through the Living-House Roof Hole" (JPH_KT-12) | read full text

6. vaa    uum    vúra    hitíhaan    araréethvaayvari    vaa    kóo    vâaramas-hitih    that    3.SG    Intensive    always    towards.a.person's.chest    so    as.much.as    being.tall

   But most of the time they come up to a person's chest. Source: Phoebe Maddux, Morphology of the Tobacco Plant: The Plant (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A) | read full text

7. kúna    vaa    vúra    ník    kun'áapunmutihanik    pamukunvôoh    muuk    vaa    káan    taay    u'íifti    pakáan    hitíhaan    kun'ûupvutihaak    patá    yíth    vaa    káan    yáanchiip    taay    u'íifti    yíth    pakáan    kun'uupvutihaak    there    so    Intensive    a.little    they.knew.it.long.ago    with.their.digging.sticks    with.(by.means.of)    that    there    much    it.is.growing    there    always    when.they.are.digging.it    that.has    other    so    there    next.year    much    it.is.growing    other    there    when.they.are.digging.it

   But they knew indeed that where they dig cacomites all the time, with their digging sticks many of them grow up, the following year many grow up where they dig them. Source: Phoebe Maddux, Practices Bordering on a Knowledge of Tillage (JPH_TKIC-IV.5) | read full text

8. vúra    uum    hitíhaan    kumasúpaa    póomuusti    pápikvas    Intensive    3.SG    always    its.day    that.she.looked.at.it    the.headdress-feather

   She looked at the headdress-feather every day (while he was gone). Source: Daisy Jones, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-20) | read full text

9. uum    vúra    hitíhaan    vaa    kích    ukupitih    úkvaatih    3.SG    Intensive    always    so    only    he.was.doing.it    he.gathered.sweathouse.wood

   He did only this all the time, he gathered sweathouse wood. Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full text

10. avansáxiich    vúra    uum    hitíhaan    uxráratih    boy    Intensive    3.SG    always    he.was.crying

    A little boy was always crying. Source: Lottie Beck, "The Kidnapped Child" (WB_KL-61) | read full text