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1. purafâat    neekyâatihara    nothing    I'm.not.doing

   [I'm doing] nothing. Source: Charlie Thom, Sr., Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (CT-01) | read full text Spoken by Charlie Thom, Sr. | Download | Play

2. vúra    purafâat    neekyâatihara    Intensive    nothing    I'm.not.doing

   [I'm doing] nothing at all. Source: Charlie Thom, Sr., Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (CT-01) | read full text Spoken by Charlie Thom, Sr. | Download | Play

3. purafâat    vúra    ná'aapunmutihara    nothing    Intensive    I.don't.know

   I don't know anything. Source: Charlie Thom, Sr., Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (CT-01) | read full text Spoken by Charlie Thom, Sr. | Download | Play

4. vúra    uum    puná'aapunmutihara    Intensive    3.SG    I.don't.know

   I don't know (anything). Source: Charlie Thom, Sr., Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (CT-01) | read full text Spoken by Charlie Thom, Sr. | Download | Play

5. xas    upakúriihva    "súnunuk    á-ni-nak    ki-yánee    náa    puváfish    navishtantihara    then    he.sang    secretly    á-ni-nak    ki-yánee    1sg.    not.liver    I.don't.like.it

   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

6. púxay    vúraxay    naxútihara    káan    ukyíimeesh    not.yet    definitely.not    I.don't.think.so    there    the.shot.will.reach.that.far.down

   I didn't think it (my shot) reached him there. Source: Benonie Harrie, "A Hunting Yarn" (DAF_KT-05c) | read full text

7. púxay    vúra    xay    hûut    koo    neethvávara    táma    âapun    not.yet    how    Intensive    how    all    I.cannot.pack.it    then    on.the.ground

   I could hardly pack it any distance at all, before (I had to put it) down again. Source: Benonie Harrie, "A Hunting Yarn" (DAF_KT-05c) | read full text

8. tá    nithyúrunih    tá    puna'íithvutihara    PERF    I.drag.it.    PERF    I.don't.pack.it

   I dragged it, I didn't try to pack it anymore. Source: Benonie Harrie, "A Hunting Yarn" (DAF_KT-05c) | read full text

9. koova    tá    neekvúrish    chavúra    kúkuum    ni'iyruhunih    chímiva    ípaha    úkuyva    so    PERF    I.am.tired    finally    again    I.roll.it.downhill    soon    tree    it.strikes

   I was so tired finally I rolled it down again, but it hit a tree. Source: Benonie Harrie, "A Hunting Yarn" (DAF_KT-05c) | read full text

10. kári    xás    upíip    púxay    vúra    na'aráriihkanhivatheeshara    púxay    vúra    húunxayheeshara    then    then    he.said    not.yet    Intensive    I.can't.cure.him    not.yet    Intensive    it.will.not.be.harmful

    Then he said, "I cannot cure him! I can't do any more for him!" Source: Nettie Ruben, "Bluejay, Medicine-Man" (DAF_KT_03) | read full text

11. xáyfaat    uum    vaa    ipíti    you don't know    hôoy    if    ipíti    puná'aapunmutihara    don't!    3.SG    so    you.are.saying    you don't know    where    truly    you.are.saying    I.don't.know

    Don't say, [in English] "I don't know.” Say [in Karuk] "I don't know." Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text Spoken by Grace Davis | Download | Play

12. puná'aapunmutihara    I.don't.know

    I don't know. Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text Spoken by Violet Super | Download | Play

13. naa    vúra    payêem    pufâat    náviiktihara    1sg.    Intensive    now    nothing    I.am.not.weaving.it

    I'm not weaving anything right now. Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text Spoken by Grace Davis | Download | Play

14. íp    vúra    nik    nixútihat    kíri    nivik    ítam    pâanpay    tá    na'ûuriha    PAST    Intensive    a.little    I.thought    I.wish    I.weave    earlier.today    after.while    PERF    I.get.lazy

    I'm always thinking I'll weave, then I get lazy. Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text Spoken by Madeline Davis | Download | Play

15. puxáy    vúra    vaa    nakupéeshara    paViolet     ukupiti    not.yet    Intensive    so    I.do.not.do.it    NOMZ    she.does.it

    I can't do it like Violet does. Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text Spoken by Madeline Davis | Download | Play

16. hãã    víri    vaa    hûutva    kípa    hûutva    kupakupháheesh    tá    naséey    yes    so    so    somehow    like    somehow    how.to.do.it    PERF    I.do.not.know

    How would I do that? I don't know. Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text Spoken by Madeline Davis | Download | Play

17. víri    man    punámaahtihara    so    why...    I.can't.see

    But I can't see. Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text Spoken by Violet Super | Download | Play

18. chavúra    puharíxay    naa    neepthíthhara    finally    never    1sg.    I.do.not.finish.it

    But I never finish it. Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text Spoken by Violet Super | Download | Play

19. Then that's finished    naa    pura    navâara    xás    I just pick all the stricks    Then that's finished    1sg.    NEG    1s(>3)    then    I just pick all the stricks

    Then that's finished. I don't ... I just pick all the stricks. Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text Spoken by Violet Super | Download | Play

20. víri    manâa    puná'aapunmutihara    xás    vúra    xás    kôok    patákiram    vúra    kunikyâati    so    maybe    I.didn't.know    then    Intensive    then    kind    that.a.soaking.basket    Intensive    the............are............making............it

    I don't know what kind they make for a soaking basket Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text Spoken by Violet Super | Download | Play

21. víri    man    yáxa    naa    puná'aapunmutihara    so    why...    look!    1sg.    I.don't.know.how

    Well, look, I don't know how. Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text Spoken by Grace Davis | Download | Play

22. naa    vúra    puná'aapunmutihara    1sg.    Intensive    I.don't.know.how

    I don't know. Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text Spoken by Grace Davis | Download | Play

23. naa    vúra    punathitíveeshara    xâat    xára    kaan    kú'uuhyanati    naa    vúra    vaa    punatákirara    fâat    vúra    pakuchuphúruthunatih    1sg.    Intensive    I.won't.hear    may    long.time    there    you.talk    1sg.    Intensive    so    I.can't.leach.acorn.meal    what    Intensive    what.you.are.talking.about

    I won't be able to hear, even if you talk a long time, I won't be able to leach acorn or whatever you're talking about. Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text Spoken by Madeline Davis | Download | Play

24. yúxnaam    vaa    káan    púva    néehruuvtihara    payúxnaam    sand    that    there    not.yet    I.didn't.use    the.fine.sand

    Never there in the fine sand, I didn't use the fine sand. Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text Spoken by Madeline Davis | Download | Play

25. xás    pirishkâarim    upíip    náa    punavâarameeshara    náa    nipshaaneesh    then    grizzly    he.said    1sg.    I.will.not.go    1sg.    I.will.keep.the.house

    Then Grizzly Bear said: "I am not going, I will keep the house." Source: Yaas, "How Grizzly Bear Got his Ears Burnt Off" (JPH_KT-01a) | read full text

26. xás    uxus    "vúra    puna'áveeshara    xáy    áas    néexrah    then    he.thought    Intensive    I.will.not.eat.it    let.not    water    I.thirst.for

    Then he thought: "I am not going to eat it, I shouldn't get thirsty for water." Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Coyote Starts for Klamath Lakes, East Roasted Grasshoppers, Floats Down River and Marries Two Girls" (JPH_KT-05) | read full text

27. púyav    panéepmahoonkoonatihara    not.good    I.am.feeling.(something.negative)

    I am not feeling well. Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about personal states (VS-05) | read full text Spoken by Vina Smith | Download | Play

28. naa    vúra    punaxúrihitihara    1sg.    Intensive    I.am.not.hungry

    I am not hungry. Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about personal states (VS-05) | read full text Spoken by Vina Smith | Download | Play

29. máh’iit    íp    naxúrihitihat    payêem    uum    punaxúrihitihara    morning    PAST    I.was.hungry    now    3.SG    I.am.not.hungry

    I was hungry this morning, but now I am not hungry. Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about personal states (VS-05) | read full text Spoken by Vina Smith | Download | Play

30. payêem    uum    punaxúrihitihara    now    3.SG    I.am.not.hungry

    Now I am not hungry. Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about personal states (VS-05) | read full text Spoken by Vina Smith | Download | Play

31. naa    vúra    puna'aapúnmutihara    1sg.    Intensive    I.do.not.know

    I do not know. Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about personal states (VS-06) | read full text Spoken by Vina Smith | Download | Play

32. naa    vúra    puna'áytihara    1sg.    Intensive    I.am.not.afraid

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

33. naa    puneehêeratihara    1sg.    I.do.not.smoke

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

34. naa    punéekfuuytihara    1s(>3)    I.do.not.whistle

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

35. naa    punapákuriihvutihara    1s(>3)    I.am.not.singing

    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

36. punamáahtihara    I.do.not.see.it

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

37. punámaahtih    I.do.not.see.it

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

38. naa    vúra    punapakurîihvutihara    1sg.    Intensive    I.do.not.sing

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

39. punapakurîihvutihara    I.do.not.sing

    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

40. puna'ápimtihara    I.am.not.looking.for.it

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

41. pûuhara    punamáahtihara    papúsihich    no    I.do.not.see.it    the.cat

    No, I do not see the cat. Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions and answers, verb tenses (VS-17) | read full text Spoken by Vina Smith | Download | Play

42. puna'aapúnmutihara    I.don't.know

    I don't know. Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about comparisons (VS-18) | read full text Spoken by Vina Smith | Download | Play

43. puna'aapúnmutihara    I.don't.know

    I don't know. Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20b) | read full text Spoken by Vina Smith | Download | Play

44. I think they have to clean it right away, so the blood doesn't settle, you know, in one place or something, I don't know why they have to do that, that's one thing I    puna'áapunmutihara    I think they have to clean it right away, so the blood doesn't settle, you know, in one place or something, I don't know why they have to do that, that's one thing I    I.don't.know

    I think they have to clean it right away, so the blood doesn't settle, you know, in one place or something, I don't know why they have to do that, that's one thing I don't know. Source: Vina Smith, I'll Never Forget Those Days (VS-22) | read full text Spoken by Vina Smith | Download | Play

45. váa    vúra    uum    yíiv    xas    vaa    vúra    uxúti    íkiich    punakúniihkeeshara    xás    vúra    vaa    ukúniihka    that    Intensive    3.SG    far    then    that    Intensive    he.thought    maybe    I.won't.shoot.it    then    Intensive    that    he.shot.it

    And it was so far away, he thought, maybe I won't get it, but he did shoot it. Source: Vina Smith, I'll Never Forget Those Days (VS-22) | read full text Spoken by Vina Smith | Download | Play

46. váa    vúra    punapipshinvárihvutihara    váa    vúra    ni'áapunmuti    payêem    that    Intensive    I.do.not.forget    that    Intensive    I.know.it    now

    I'll never forget that, I know it today. Source: Vina Smith, I'll Never Forget Those Days (VS-22) | read full text Spoken by Vina Smith | Download | Play

47. pûuhara    náa    puneekvíi-hitihara    no    1sg.    I.am.not.sleeping

    No I'm not sleeping Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about feeling cold, playing, and getting old (VS-35b) | read full text Spoken by Vina Smith | Download | Play

48. kári    vúra    naa    nîinamich    víri    vaa    kumá'ii    payêem    naa    uum    púfaat    neekyâatihara    then    Intensive    1sg.    little    so    so    because.of    now    1sg.    3.SG    nothing    I.cannot.do

    I was little then (chuckle), but now I can’t do anything. Source: Violet Super, Violet Cooking (VSu-01) | read full text Spoken by Violet Super | Download | Play

49. paninípshiih    áthiik    tu'ívahaak    vaa    kári    vúra    puna'áhootihara    my.legs    cold    it.died    so    then    Intensive    I.don't.walk

    When my legs get cold, then I can’t walk. Source: Violet Super, Violet Cooking (VSu-01) | read full text Spoken by Violet Super | Download | Play

50. naa    vúra    pu    naxútihan,     kíri    kunikviit-hívath    1sg.    Intensive    NEG    I.didn't.think    I.wish    they.make.him.sleep

    I just didn't want them to put him to sleep. Source: Violet Super, Violet's Dog (VSu-03) | read full text

51. naa    vúra    púfaat    na'aapúnmutiharahanik    1sg.    Intensive    nothing    I.did.not.know.it

    I didn't know anything! Source: William Bright, "Speech to Karuk Tribal Council" (WB-01) | read full text Spoken by William Bright | Download | Play

52. vúra    puna'ísheeshara    Intensive    I.will.not.drink

    "I won't drink." Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text

53. xás    kári    too    xus    puna'ísheeshara    then    then    he.had    think    I.will.not.drink

    And he thought, "I won't drink." Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text

54. vúra    vaa    too    xus    puna'ísheeshara    naa    ishpúk    nikyâantih    Intensive    so    he.had    think    I.will.not.drink    1sg.    dentalium.shells    I'm.going.to.get.it

    He thought like that, "I won't drink, I'm going to get money." Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text

55. kári    xás    uxus    ii    vúra    tá    puná'uumara    vúra    íshaha    tá    néexrah    then    then    he.thought    oh!    Intensive    PERF    I.won't.arrive.there    Intensive    water    PERF    I.thirst.for.it

    And he thought, "Oh, I can't reach it, I'm really thirsty." Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text

56. xás    uxus    vúra    puna'ísheeshara    astíipich    then    he.thought    Intensive    I.will.not.drink    right.at.the.bank

    And he thought, "I won't drink right by the bank." Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text

57. chémi    ník    ishávaas    punáyuupheeshara    all.right    a.little    child.of.deceased.sibling    I.won't.open.my.eyes

    "All right, nephew, I won't open my eyes." Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Homecoming" (second telling) (WB_KL-02a) | read full text Spoken by Nettie Ruben | Download | Play

58. vúra    puna'áveeshara    Intensive    I.will.not.eat.them

    "I won't eat them." Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text

59. púyava    uxús    payêem    vúra    puna'ípaveeshara    paxathímtas    you.see    he.thought    now    Intensive    I.will.not.eat.it.again    the.roasted.grasshoppers

    So he thought, "Now I won't eat roasted grasshoppers again. Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text

60. tá    koo    vúra    puna'áveeshara    PERF    all    Intensive    I.will.not.eat.it

    That's all, I won't eat them." Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text

61. xás    uxúti    vúra    puna'ísheeshara    ishkéesh'aas    then    he.was.thinking    Intensive    I.will.not.drink.it    river.water

    And he thought, "I won't drink river water." Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text

62. vúra    puna'ísheeshara    ishkéesh'aas    Intensive    I.will.not.drink.it    river.water

    "I won't drink river water." Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text

63. kúna    vúra    pu'astíipich    na'ísheeshara    in.addition    Intensive    not.by.the.bank    I.will.not.drink.it

    But I won't drink by the bank. Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text

64. vúra    punáyuupheeshara    Intensive    I.will.not.open.my.eyes

    I won't open my eyes." Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text

65. xás    pihnêefich    upíip    payêem    ník    vúra    ishávaas    vaa    puneepkuphêeshara    then    coyote    he.said    now    a.little    Intensive    child.of.deceased.sibling    so    I.will.not.do.it.again

    And Coyote said, "I won't do it again this time, nephew." Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text

66. xás    upíip    payêem    vúra    puna'itxâarihveesh    then    he.said    now    Intensive    I.will.not.open.my.eyes

    And (Coyote) said, "Now I won't open my eyes." Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text

67. xás    uxus    hûut    kumá'ii    papunayâavahitihara    then    he.thought    how    because.of    that.I.am.not.getting.full

    And he thought, "Why am I not getting full?" Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text

68. puna'áveeshara    I.will.not.eat.them

    I won't eat them." Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text

69. naa    vúra    puna'aapúnmutihara    hôoy    uum    papihnêefich    úkrii    1sg.    Intensive    I.do.not.know    where    3.SG    that.Coyote    he.stays

    I don't know where Coyote is." Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Steals Fire" (WB_KL-10) | read full text

70. pûu    púra fâat    vúra    neepítihara    no    nothing    Intensive    I.wasn't.saying

    "No, I didn't say anything." Source: Mamie Offield, "Duck Hawk and His Wife" (WB_KL-27) | read full text

71. vúra    punathítiimtihara    Intensive    I.can't.hear

    I can't hear them." Source: Mamie Offield, "Duck Hawk and His Wife" (WB_KL-27) | read full text

72. kumá'ii    papuna'ûusurutihara    because.of    I.cannot.take.it.out

    For that reason I can't take (the disease object) out. Source: Nettie Ruben, "Blue Jay As Doctor" (WB_KL-29) | read full text

73. xás    itháan    pakun'ípak    xás    úpeenvunaa    pamutunvêech    papuna'ípakahaak    kuxúseesh    tá    neeykáraheen    then    once    when.they.returned    then    she.told.them    her.little.ones    if.I.don't.come.back    you.will.know.it    PERF    she.killed.me

    And once when they returned, (Deer) told her little ones, "If I don't come back, you will know (lit., think) that she's killed me." Source: Julia Starritt, "The Bear and the Deer" (WB_KL-32) | read full text

74. vaa    uum    vúra    punaturâayvutiheeshara    so    3.SG    Intensive    I.won't.be.looking.for.him

    "That way I won't be looking for him." Source: Lottie Beck, "The Kidnapped Child" (WB_KL-61) | read full text

75. xás    upíip    man'áta    tá    punapikrôokara    then    he.says    maybe    PERF    I.don't.remember

    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

76. naa    vúra    pufâat    neekyáatihara    1sg.    Intensive    nothing    I'm.not.doing

    I'm not doing anything. Source: Various speakers, "Miscellaneous Sentences" (WB_KV) | read full text

77. kúmá'ii    papuna'ûusurutih    because.of    that.I.can't.take.it.off

    That's why I can't take it out. Source: Nettie Ruben, "Blue Jay as Doctor" (WB_LA78.1-004a) | read full text Spoken by Nettie Ruben | Download | Play