Ararahih'urípih
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fâat / fata- what?, something

Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #1281 | revised Nov 07 2014

fâat / fata- • PRON • what?, something

Derivatives (12; show derivatives)

Source: WB 350, p.333

  • fâat i'áveesh. What are you going to eat? [Reference: Richardson 1993:13]
  • vaa kumá'ii paxáas tu'iv, pu'uum, vúra fâat kumakêemish áamtihan. That's why he almost died, he didn't eat any kind of poison. [Reference: Violet's Dog]

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  1. fâat ikyâatih?
    What are you doing?
    Source: Charlie Thom, Sr., Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (CT-01) | read full text
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  2. fâat uum vaa?
    What is this?
    Source: Charlie Thom, Sr., Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (CT-01) | read full text
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  3. fâat ixútih?
    What are you thinking?
    Source: Charlie Thom, Sr., Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (CT-01) | read full text
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  4. fâat ichuuphítih?
    What did you say?
    Source: Charlie Thom, Sr., Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (CT-01) | read full text
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  5. ipikrôokti húm fâat peepítih?
    Did you learn (remember) what you said?
    Source: Charlie Thom, Sr., Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (CT-01) | read full text
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  6. atafâat ixúti " kíri ni'am."
    Maybe you think you want to eat something.
    Source: Charlie Thom, Sr., Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (CT-01) | read full text
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  7. fâat yáxa?
    [What's that?]
    Source: Charlie Thom, Sr., Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (CT-01) | read full text
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  8. fâat kumá'ii pananítaat káru panani'áka tá kuniyâaram, fâat kumá'ii?
    Why did they take my father and mother away?
    Source: Charlie Thom, Sr., How Charlie Grew Up (CT-02) | read full text
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  9. " fâat kumá'ii peexráratih? naa ník ôok páy níkrii."
    "What are you crying for? I'm here with you."
    Source: Charlie Thom, Sr., How Charlie Grew Up (CT-02) | read full text
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  10. koovúra ni'áapunma fâat nikyâatih.
    I learned everything, I can make anything.
    Source: Charlie Thom, Sr., How Charlie Grew Up (CT-02) | read full text
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  11. xas yítha upíip, "fâat kumá'ii panu'íchunveesh?"
    And one of the girls asked, "What for do we have to hide?"
    Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text

  12. fátaak xás tá nikyívish.
    I fell down somewhere.
    Source: Benonie Harrie, "A Hunting Yarn" (DAF_KT-05c) | read full text

  13. kári xás kachakâach upíip, " ããx fatamakêesh kich ára upêereesh!"
    Then Bluejay said, "Indeed! Maybe he will say something!"
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Bluejay, Medicine-Man" (DAF_KT_03) | read full text

  14. I have to be like ... fâat kumakêemish, poo'iithvútihanik fâatva...
    I'll be like ... some kind of animal to pack them, something ...
    Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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  15. chími... talk about your weaving, fâatva peevíikti payêem.
    Come on, talk about your weaving, whatever you're weaving now.
    Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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  16. fâat kích ivíiktih?
    [To Madeline:] What are you weaving?
    Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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  17. chími fâat ayu'âach vúra uum vúra vaa táni'áfish, mâa vaa pay vaahyâach.
    It's because I feel it, [I think] “That's the right one!”
    Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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  18. fátaak vúra tá nipáchish, yítha kúna nikyâasip.
    I just throw it down somewhere, I start another one.
    Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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  19. My mother used to tell me, pafâat ixuti kíri nivik, ipthíithi, otherwise you never will.
    My mother used to tell me, whatever you want to weave, finish it, otherwise you never will.
    Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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  20. chiimíchvahich pafâat panu'áapunma.
    We only know a little bit of all that.
    Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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  21. naa vúra punathitíveeshara, xâat xára kaan kú'uuhyanati, naa vúra vaa punatákirara fâat vúra pakuchuphúruthunatih.
    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
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  22. sáruk áta vúra asáriik húm fâat?
    By the river, in the rocks, or what?
    Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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  23. fáat.
    What?
    Source: Julian Lang, Vina Smith, Conversation: Julian's Day (JL-VS-01) | read full text
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  24. kunpíip: " fâat kumá'ii peekmaháchraam tá nupsáamkir?"
    They said: "What did we leave him there for in the sweathouse?"
    Source: Yaas, "How Grizzly Bear Got his Ears Burnt Off" (JPH_KT-01a) | read full text

  25. kári xás kunpíip: " fâat kumá'ii pavaa kaan su' úkrii?"
    They said: "What is he in there for?"
    Source: Yaas, "How Grizzly Bear Got his Ears Burnt Off" (JPH_KT-01a) | read full text

  26. xás axmáy vúra kúnish ukéen, xás yíth upíip: " atafâat pihnêefich. ããx, atafâat pihnêefich."
    Then all at once it kind of moved, and one said: "Maybe it's Coyote. Oh, maybe it's Coyote."
    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. vaa tá kunpíip fâat vúrava pa'úuxhaak: " úux, ihêeraha kóo úux."
    They say when anything tastes bad: "It tastes bad, it tastes as bad as tobacco."
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, Sense Characteristics (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.a) | read full text

  28. nanittáat mít upôovôo?ihat, pafâat vúrava úuxhaak: " iheeraháxiit kyúnish kyóo uux."
    My mother used to say when anything tasted bad: "It tastes as bad as green tobacco."
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, Sense Characteristics (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.a) | read full text

  29. hâari axmáy'ik vúra fátaak tá kunmah vaa vúra taay pátayiith, xás sú' patá kun'ûupvakurih.
    Sometimes they see at some place a lot of Indian potatoes, and then they dig in under.
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, They Knew That Seeds Will Grow (JPH_TKIC-IV.3) | read full text

  30. fâat vaa vúra vaa pávaa kupítihan, man'áta axraas.
    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

  31. vúra fâatva vaa vúra pávaa kupítihan, sú' ithivthaneensúruk usanpîithvutih.
    Something is doing that, is packing it around down under the ground.
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, They Knew That Seeds Will Grow (JPH_TKIC-IV.3) | read full text

  32. akvaat fátaak ukyívunih.
    The raccoon fell out of the tree.
    Source: Lucille Albers, Sentences about animals, insects, and going places (LA-04) | read full text
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  33. fâat kuma'áv poo'áamtih?
    What kind of food is he eating?
    Source: Sonny Davis, Sentences about cooking (SD-03) | read full text
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  34. fâat ukupavêenah.
    What is it doing?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about perception, animals, verb tenses (SD-VS-01) | read full text
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  35. nu ni'áasish, nikvíit-ha, xás vúra fâatva nithítiv.
    When I was sleeping I heard something.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about perception, animals, verb tenses (SD-VS-01) | read full text
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  36. fâat i'ávaheen?
    What did you eat?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions (VS-03) | read full text
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  37. fâat i'áveesh?
    What are you going to eat?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions (VS-03) | read full text
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  38. fâat i'áamti payêem?
    What are you eating now?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions (VS-03) | read full text
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  39. fâat pee'áamtih?
    What are you eating?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions (VS-03) | read full text
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  40. fâat ímuustih?
    What are you looking at?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions (VS-03) | read full text
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  41. fâat ímuusti íim?
    What are you looking at?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions (VS-03) | read full text
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  42. fâatva îikam úkrii.
    There was something outside.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with words for accent (VS-07) | read full text
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  43. fâatva îikam tá nithítiv.
    I heard something outside.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with words for accent (VS-07) | read full text
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  44. ipít îikam fâatva úkrii.
    Yesterday there was something outside.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with words for accent (VS-07) | read full text
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  45. fâat îikam?
    What is outside?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with words for accent (VS-07) | read full text
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  46. fâat îikam tée mah?
    What did you see out there?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with words for accent (VS-07) | read full text
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  47. fâatva tá nimáh.
    I saw something.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with words for accent (VS-07) | read full text
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  48. fâatva tá nimáahti îikam.
    I saw something outside.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with words for accent (VS-07) | read full text
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  49. fâat uthivtákoo pamíxvaah?
    What is on your head (inanimate object)?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about possession, locatives; words for consonants and accent (VS-08) | read full text
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  50. fâat utháaniv káan peempaah?
    What is lying on the road?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about possession, locatives; words for consonants and accent (VS-08) | read full text
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  51. fâatva káan úkrii pakáas.
    There is something in the nest.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about possession, locatives; words for consonants and accent (VS-08) | read full text
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  52. fâat tá níkúupha?
    What did I do?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with verb paradigms, words for accent (VS-11) | read full text
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  53. fâat uum pamúsmus u'áamtih?
    What does a cow eat?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about animals, questions (VS-14) | read full text
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  54. fâat ikyâatih?
    What are you making?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions (VS-16) | read full text
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  55. fâat teekyâatih?
    What did you make?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions (VS-16) | read full text
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  56. fâat ikyáveesh?
    What will you make?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions (VS-16) | read full text
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  57. fâat teekyáv?
    What did you make?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions (VS-16) | read full text
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  58. fâat ikupavêenatih?
    What are you doing?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions (VS-16) | read full text
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  59. fâat kuma'áv?
    What kind of food is it?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions (VS-16) | read full text
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  60. fâat kuma'áv peemnísheesh?
    What kind of food are you gonna cook?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions (VS-16) | read full text
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  61. fâat kuméethyur peekváreesh?
    What kind of car are you gonna buy?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions (VS-16) | read full text
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  62. fâat kumapáah peekyáveesh?
    What kind of boat are you gonna make?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions (VS-16) | read full text
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  63. fâat kuma'ávah peevíshtaantih?
    What kind of food do you like to eat?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions (VS-16) | read full text
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  64. fâat kuma'ish?
    What kind of drink (do you like)?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions and answers, verb tenses (VS-17) | read full text
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  65. " Now, fâat káru?"
    "Now, what else?"
    Source: Vina Smith, Avansáxiich káru Chishíih káru Xanchíifich (VS-19) | read full text
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  66. " Pay'ôok uum fâat?"
    "What's this here?"
    Source: Vina Smith, Avansáxiich káru Chishíih káru Xanchíifich (VS-19) | read full text
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  67. fâat iimkun kukupavêenahitih?
    What are you guys doing?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20a) | read full text
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  68. fâat iimkun kukupavêenatih?
    What are you guys doing?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20a) | read full text
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  69. iim fâat ikupavêenatih?
    What are you doing?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20a) | read full text
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  70. fâat i'aapúnmutih?
    What do you know?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20a) | read full text
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  71. fâat póomniishtih?
    What does he cook?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20b) | read full text
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  72. fátaak nivâarameesh.
    I'm going somewhere.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20b) | read full text
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  73. atafâat.
    Perhaps.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20b) | read full text
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  74. fâat iim i'áveesh?
    What are you going to eat?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20c) | read full text
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  75. fâat koovúra panu'áveesh?
    What (is it that) are we all going to eat?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20c) | read full text
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  76. fâat koovúra nu'áveesh?
    What are we all going to eat?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20c) | read full text
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  77. fâat nu'áveesh?
    What are we all going to eat?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20c) | read full text
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  78. fâat uum pay?
    What is this?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20c) | read full text
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  79. fâat uum vaa?
    What is that?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20c) | read full text
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  80. fâat kóok?
    What kind of thing is that?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20c) | read full text
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  81. fâat iim i'áveesh?
    What are you going to eat?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20d) | read full text
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  82. fâat iimkun ku'áveesh?
    What are you guys going to eat?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20d) | read full text
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  83. fâat uum koovúra nu'áveesh?
    What are we all going to eat?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20d) | read full text
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  84. fâat nu'amvunâavish?
    What are we all going to be eating?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20d) | read full text
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  85. vaa, xas vúra vaa uum vúra uum chéemyaach, káru uum vúra vaa pu'aapúnmutihara fâat uum pawashing machine.
    And she was quick, and she didn't even know what a washing machine was.
    Source: Vina Smith, Washing (VS-24) | read full text
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  86. fâat ixútih" kíri ni'av"?
    What do you want to eat?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions, answers, possessives (VS-29) | read full text
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  87. fâatva uchuuphítih.
    He said something.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions, answers, possessives (VS-29) | read full text
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  88. fâat kuma'ásip?
    What kind of bowl?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about spatial relations (VS-33) | read full text
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  89. fâat uum pay?
    What is that?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about making sandwiches (VS-38) | read full text
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  90. fâat i'áveesh?
    What are you going to eat?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about making sandwiches (VS-38) | read full text
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  91. fâat ixúti i'áveesh?
    What do you feel like eating?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about making sandwiches (VS-38) | read full text
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  92. fâat ivíshtaantih, musmús'iish káru nakísh'iish?
    What do you want, beef or pork?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about making sandwiches (VS-38) | read full text
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  93. káru vaa pafâat ixútihaak " kíri nímnish."
    (She told me to cook) whatever I wanted to.
    Source: Violet Super, Violet Cooking (VSu-01) | read full text
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  94. vaa kumá'ii paxáas tu'iv, pu'uum vúra fâat kumakêemish áamtihan."
    "That's why he almost died, he didn’t eat any kind of poison."
    Source: Violet Super, Violet's Dog (VSu-03) | read full text

  95. púyava uum fâat tu'ûukar.
    Then he paid something.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Swearing" (WB_KL-0) | read full text

  96. xás patá kunípeerahaak " fâat iyúrish" xás patu'ûurihaak púyava uum hâari ára vaa kúth tóo tháaniv.
    When they told him to pay something and he refused, then sometimes a person was killed because of it.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Swearing" (WB_KL-0) | read full text

  97. kári xás yítha upíip pa'ifápiit, " ããx!" upiip, " ããx! atafâat pihnêefich.
    Then one girl said, "Ugh!" she said, "ugh! maybe it's Coyote.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text

  98. yánava páy fâatva utháthriinaa.
    He saw something sitting in baskets.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text

  99. xás axmáy fâat kúnish uthítiv.
    And suddenly he sort of heard something.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text

  100. xás kâakum tá kunpiip, " atafâat uum pihnêefich.
    And some of them said, "Maybe he's Coyote.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text

  101. atafâat ník vúra pihnêefich."
    Maybe it is Coyote."
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text

  102. xás pa'ávansas uumkun yúruk ník tá kunithvirípiithva, xás puvúra fâat tá máhap.
    And the men ran around downriver, and they didn't see anything.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text

  103. xás upiip, " fâat yáxa kumakitâana.
    And he said, "Look, what kind of 'kitâana' is it?
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Trades Songs" (WB_KL-07) | read full text

  104. iim vúra pufaat-hára."
    You're just nothing!"
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-08) | read full text

  105. xás pihnêefich upíip " oo! vúra iim pufaat-hára.
    And Coyote said, "Aw, you're just nothing!
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-08) | read full text

  106. kári xás upíip " fâat iimkun kukyâatih."
    And he said, "What do you do?"
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Trades Songs and Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-09) | read full text

  107. xás fâat chími vúra kunpáxraameesh.
    Then what were they to bet?
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Steals Fire" (WB_KL-10) | read full text

  108. xás vúra fâat chími pá'aah kunikyâareesh, tá kunpíimshavunaa.
    Then what were they to make fire with? They were freezing.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Steals Fire" (WB_KL-10) | read full text

  109. xás kunpiip, " atafâat iim pihnêefich.
    And they said, "Maybe you're Coyote.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Steals Fire" (WB_KL-10) | read full text

  110. xás kunipêer " atafâat íim araraxus'úmaan."
    And they said to him, "Maybe you're a doctor."
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote as Doctor" (WB_KL-11) | read full text

  111. kári xás kunpatánvish, " fâat kumá'ii ivúrayvutih."
    And they asked him, "Why are you wandering around?"
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Gives Salmon and Acorns to Mankind" (WB_KL-17) | read full text

  112. xás upíip yítha pa'ávansa, " yee! páy fâat tá nimah.
    And one man said, "Hey, what's this I see?"
    Source: Julia Starritt, "The Hair in the Soup" (WB_KL-21) | read full text

  113. koovúra mímyaahti vaa ikupítiheesh, fátaak á' ikûuntakoovish.
    All your life you will be doing that, you will sit on something above.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-24) | read full text

  114. fatamakêesh kích ára úpeereesh."
    She'll tell a person just anything."
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Blue Jay As Doctor" (WB_KL-29) | read full text

  115. xánpuut kípa fâat pamúpxaan káru xánthiip.
    Maul Oak and Black Oak had beautiful caps.
    Source: Lottie Beck, "The Story of Tan Oak Acorn" (WB_KL-30) | read full text

  116. xás púxay fâat vúra pítihara.
    And he didn't say anything.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "The Bear and the Deer" (WB_KL-32) | read full text

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

  118. víri vaa kúth chishíi fâat vúra vaa uthíramtih.
    For that reason Dog can track anything that way.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "How Deer Meat Was Lost and Regained" (WB_KL-33) | read full text

  119. kári xás pakúuk kunpávyiihma axmáy vúra fâatva kunthítiv.
    And when they came back there, suddenly they heard something.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "The Story of Slug" (WB_KL-38) | read full text

  120. kári xás kunpiip, " fâat kóok."
    And they said, "What is it?"
    Source: Mamie Offield, "The Story of Slug" (WB_KL-38) | read full text

  121. yakún tá kun'ay, " fâat kóok."
    You see, they were afraid, (they wondered), "What is it?"
    Source: Mamie Offield, "The Story of Slug" (WB_KL-38) | read full text

  122. kári xás kunipêer, " mímyaahti, hûutva kóo mímyaahti vúra iim fátaak asasúruk vaa káan i'ifchíkinkutiheesh.
    And they told him, "In your life, in your whole life you will be sticking to the bottom of a rock there someplace.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "The Story of Slug" (WB_KL-38) | read full text

  123. xás kári uxútih, " yee! fâat yáxa.
    And he thought, "Well, look! What is it?
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Creation of Eels" (WB_KL-41) | read full text

  124. fâat kumá'ii paneehyûunishtih."
    Why is she shouting at me?"
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Creation of Eels" (WB_KL-41) | read full text

  125. fâat kôok peepâanvuti iim."
    What did you paint it with?"
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Why Lightning Strikes Trees" (WB_KL-44) | read full text

  126. fatavéenaan kuníkyav.
    They made a priest.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Origin of the Pikiawish" (WB_KL-48) | read full text

  127. víri teepshítaanivanihich axmáy kúnish fâat uthítiv.
    After a while suddenly he sort of heard something.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Love Medicine" (WB_KL-51) | read full text

  128. teepshítaanivanihich axmáy kúnish fâat uthítiv.
    In a little while, suddenly he sort of heard something.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Love Medicine" (WB_KL-51) | read full text

  129. kúkuum fátaak tá kunmáh " ikxaréeyav tu'íifship."
    Again somewhere they would see that a spirit had grown up.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full text

  130. fâat kúnish kun'ixáxanaatih.
    They were sort of crying somewhat.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Deer-hunting Medicine" (WB_KL-53) | read full text

  131. fâat kumá'ii pa'ôok ti'áhoo.
    Why is it that you have come here?
    Source: Mamie Offield, "A Trip to the Land of the Dead" (WB_KL-58) | read full text

  132. axmáy kúnish pay'ôok fâat upmahóonkoon.
    Suddenly he sort of felt something right here (on his body).
    Source: Daisy Jones, "The Snake People" (WB_KL-60) | read full text

  133. xás pa'avansáxiich uxús " fâat áta kúth pávaa kanéepeentih."
    And the boy thought, "I wonder why I was told that?"
    Source: Lottie Beck, "The Kidnapped Child" (WB_KL-61) | read full text

  134. xás kunipêer " fâat panu'ákiheesh."
    And they said to him, "What can we give you?"
    Source: Julia Starritt, "How the Rube Family Was Named" (WB_KL-66) | read full text

  135. xás papeevapíthvaan upíip " fâat kúna."
    And the storekeeper said, "What else?"
    Source: Julia Starritt, "How the Rube Family Was Named" (WB_KL-66) | read full text

  136. xás kári papreacher muhrôoha umáh " fâat tu'úrishuk sichakvutvarasúruk."
    And the preacher's wife saw her take something out of the belt.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "A Quack Doctor" (WB_KL-67) | read full text

  137. xás ukyâahiti pakáan kuniváxraahmathti pa'áama káru vúra fâat vúra pakuntâarahitih.
    And they were made so that they dried fish there and whatever (else) they had.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "The Living-house" (WB_KL-77) | read full text

  138. xás âapun vúra uum pootâayhiti pamukun'ásip káru vúra fâat vúra pakuntâarahiti pakunimnísheesh.
    And on the floor were their cooking baskets and whatever else they had when they were going to cook.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "The Living-house" (WB_KL-77) | read full text

  139. fátaak kúna tóo sriv.
    They did target-shooting someplace.
    Source: Emily Donahue, "The Pikiawish at Katimin" (WB_KL-82) | read full text

  140. xás kári koovúra tá kunpáatvunaa, xás páahak tá kunvíitkar ithyáruk pafatavéenaan.
    And everybody bathed, and they rowed the priest across-river in a boat.
    Source: Maggie Charley, "The Pikiawish at Clear Creek" (WB_KL-84) | read full text

  141. pafatavéenaan poo'ípakahaak ikxúrar tóo pvíishrih, xás vúra pa'áraar tá kun'íranva.
    When the priest returned, evening was falling, and the people were coming to celebrate the world renewal.
    Source: Maggie Charley, "The Pikiawish at Clear Creek" (WB_KL-84) | read full text

  142. kári xás kúkuum fatavéenaan tuvâaram, asaxêevar kúuk tu'uum.
    And the priest went off again, he went to Baldy Peak.
    Source: Maggie Charley, "The Pikiawish at Clear Creek" (WB_KL-84) | read full text

  143. pafatavéenaan yáas u'ípak ikxúrar.
    Then in the evening the priest returned.
    Source: Maggie Charley, "The Pikiawish at Clear Creek" (WB_KL-84) | read full text

  144. imáankam tóo pvâaram pafatavéenaan.
    The next day, the priest went home.
    Source: Maggie Charley, "The Pikiawish at Clear Creek" (WB_KL-84) | read full text

  145. vúra fátaak xás yáv u'íihya.
    Some places (the trees) are good
    Source: Emily Donahue, "Preparing Basket Materials" (WB_KL-85) | read full text

  146. káan ára áxak, yítha uum fâatva âapun ukyâatih.
    Two people are there, one is doing something on the ground.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text

  147. kári xás kachakâach upiip, " ããx, naa fatamakêesh kích ára úpeereesh.
    Bluejay said, "Ããx, she would just say anything to anybody.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Blue Jay as Doctor" (WB_LA78.1-004a) | read full text
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  148. fáat vúra upéesh."
    She'll just say anything."
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Blue Jay as Doctor" (WB_LA78.1-004a) | read full text
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