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. 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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  7. 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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  8. " 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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  9. 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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  10. 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
  11. 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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  12. 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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  13. 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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  14. 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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  15. 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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  16. 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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  17. 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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  18. fáat.
    What?
    Source: Julian Lang, Vina Smith, Conversation: Julian's Day (JL-VS-01) | read full text
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  19. 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
  20. 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
  21. 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
  22. 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
  23. 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
  24. 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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  25. 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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  26. fâat i'ávaheen?
    What did you eat?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions (VS-03) | read full text
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  27. fâat i'áveesh?
    What are you going to eat?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions (VS-03) | read full text
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  28. fâat i'áamti payêem?
    What are you eating now?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions (VS-03) | read full text
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  29. fâat pee'áamtih?
    What are you eating?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions (VS-03) | read full text
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  30. fâat ímuustih?
    What are you looking at?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions (VS-03) | read full text
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  31. fâat ímuusti íim?
    What are you looking at?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions (VS-03) | read full text
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  32. fâat îikam?
    What is outside?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with words for accent (VS-07) | read full text
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  33. 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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  34. 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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  35. 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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  36. 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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  37. fâat ikyâatih?
    What are you making?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions (VS-16) | read full text
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  38. fâat teekyâatih?
    What did you make?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions (VS-16) | read full text
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  39. fâat ikyáveesh?
    What will you make?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions (VS-16) | read full text
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  40. fâat teekyáv?
    What did you make?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions (VS-16) | read full text
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  41. fâat ikupavêenatih?
    What are you doing?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions (VS-16) | read full text
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  42. fâat kuma'áv?
    What kind of food is it?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions (VS-16) | read full text
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  43. 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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  44. 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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  45. 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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  46. 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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  47. 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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  48. " Now, fâat káru?"
    "Now, what else?"
    Source: Vina Smith, Avansáxiich káru Chishíih káru Xanchíifich (VS-19) | read full text
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  49. " 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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  50. 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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  51. 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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  52. 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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  53. 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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  54. 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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  55. 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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  56. 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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  57. 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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  58. 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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  59. 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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  60. 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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  61. 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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  62. 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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  63. 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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  64. 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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  65. 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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  66. 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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  67. 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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  68. fâat kuma'ásip?
    What kind of bowl?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about spatial relations (VS-33) | read full text
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  69. fâat uum pay?
    What is that?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about making sandwiches (VS-38) | read full text
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  70. 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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  71. 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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  72. 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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  73. 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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  74. 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
  75. púyava uum fâat tu'ûukar.
    Then he paid something.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Swearing" (WB_KL-0) | read full text
  76. 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
  77. xás axmáy fâat kúnish uthítiv.
    And suddenly he sort of heard something.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text
  78. 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
  79. 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
  80. iim vúra pufaat-hára."
    You're just nothing!"
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-08) | read full text
  81. 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
  82. 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
  83. xás fâat chími vúra kunpáxraameesh.
    Then what were they to bet?
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Steals Fire" (WB_KL-10) | read full text
  84. 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
  85. 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
  86. 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
  87. 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
  88. 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
  89. fâat kúth peepakurîihvutih."
    Why are you singing?"
    Source: Mamie Offield, "How Deer Meat Was Lost and Regained" (WB_KL-33) | read full text
  90. 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
  91. kári xás kunpiip, " fâat kóok."
    And they said, "What is it?"
    Source: Mamie Offield, "The Story of Slug" (WB_KL-38) | read full text
  92. 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
  93. 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
  94. fâat kumá'ii paneehyûunishtih."
    Why is she shouting at me?"
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Creation of Eels" (WB_KL-41) | read full text
  95. fâat kôok peepâanvuti iim."
    What did you paint it with?"
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Why Lightning Strikes Trees" (WB_KL-44) | read full text
  96. 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
  97. 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
  98. fâat kúnish kun'ixáxanaatih.
    They were sort of crying somewhat.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Deer-hunting Medicine" (WB_KL-53) | read full text
  99. 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
  100. 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
  101. 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
  102. 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
  103. 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
  104. 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
  105. 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
  106. 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
  107. 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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