Ararahih'urípih
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ikvar / ikvan- to buy

Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #2176 | revised Dec 09 2014

ikvar / ikvan- • V • to buy

Derivatives (3)
ikvárar "to use to buy; to pay"
ikvárar "to go to buy"
ikváraruk "to come to buy"

Source: WB 529, p.341

Note: Equiv. to ikvárish.

  • kishakeevráriik sáanva ukvárareesh. She's going to Hoopa to buy clothes. [Reference: KV]
  • xára mít puxútihaphat kíri apxantínihich vaa úkvar pávaa kumá'as. Long ago they didn't want white people to buy that kind of stone. [Reference: TK 152.23]

Sentence examples (9)

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  1. níkvaareesh uum pathyur.
    I am going to buy a car.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about driving and directions (SD-VS-02) | read full text
    Spoken by Sonny Davis | Download | Play

  2. níkvaareesh pathyur.
    I'm going to buy a car.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about driving and directions (SD-VS-02) | read full text
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  3. peethyur níkvaareesh.
    I am going to buy a car.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about driving and directions (SD-VS-02) | read full text
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  4. ithyur níkvaareesh.
    I am going to buy a car.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about driving and directions (SD-VS-02) | read full text
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  5. nivâarameesh Medford pathyuru chími níkvaareesh.
    I am going to Medford to buy a car.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about driving and directions (SD-VS-02) | read full text
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  6. Medford nivâarameesh, ithyuru níkvaareesh.
    I am going to Medford to buy a car.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about driving and directions (SD-VS-02) | read full text
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  7. káruma káru taay u'ôorahiti pa'ánav patá níkvar, pani'ákihti.
    And in fact it cost a lot, the medicine that I bought, that I was giving him.
    Source: Violet Super, Violet's Dog (VSu-03) | read full text

  8. xás uthvuyâanati ípa kóo kunípeerat " ikvan."
    And he was naming all that they had told him to buy.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "How the Rube Family Was Named" (WB_KL-66) | read full text

  9. xás koovúra tupipshinvárihva péethvuy, ípa kunípeerat " ikvan."
    And he forgot all the names that they had told him to buy.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "How the Rube Family Was Named" (WB_KL-66) | read full text