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lexicon ID #1456 | revised Nov 07 2014
if • ADJ • true
Derivative (1)
ifuyâach "that's right; really true"
Source: WB 408, p.335
- púvaa ífhara. That's not true. [Reference: TK 216.2]
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xás upíti "
vúra if,
koovúra vaa umúsahiti ôok pananú'uup,
panini'ávan mukrívraam."
And she said, "It's true, everything looks like our things here, in my husband's house."Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Marries His Own Daughter" (WB_KL-16) | read full text -
xás pa'avansáxiich u'aapúnma
" vúra if."
And the boy knew it was true.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Bear and the Deer" (WB_KL-32) | read full text -
kári xás upiip, "
pa'ífhaak víri chími nupêen péekupheesh.
And he said, "If it is true, let me tell you what to do.Source: Mamie Offield, "A Trip to the Land of the Dead" (WB_KL-58) | read full text -
hínu páy vúra if.
Sure enough, it was true.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Kidnapped Child" (WB_KL-61) | read full text -
íi,
kári xás kunxus,
" púya íf puxích too kúha,
kíri xuus kun'uum."
And they were thinking that she's really sick, that she needs to get doctored.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Blue Jay as Doctor" (WB_LA78.1-004a) | read full text
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