Display mode: sentence | word | word components

1. 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
   Spoken by Charlie Thom, Sr. | Download | Play
2. " 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
   Spoken by Charlie Thom, Sr. | Download | Play
3. 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
4. xas yítha upíip, "hûut kumá'ii patá kin'íchunva?
   Then one of them said, "What for did you hide us?
   
   Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text
5. vaa kumá'ii poo'apunkôotih.
   Therefore he poisoned him.
   
   Source: Nettie Ruben, "Bluejay, Medicine-Man" (DAF_KT_03) | read full text
6. víri manâa hôoy if áta ishêeyti, kumá'ii peevíikti.
   Well, it's not true that you don't know how, because you're weaving.
   
   Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
   Spoken by Grace Davis | Download | Play
7. hûut kumá'ii.
   Why?
   
   Source: Julian Lang, Vina Smith, Conversation: Julian's Day (JL-VS-01) | read full text
   Spoken by Vina Smith | Download | Play
8. xás vúra uumkun hitíhaan pakaan kunivyíihmutihanik peekxaréeyav, váa kumá'ii pakun'úuhyanatihanik, hûut áta pakunkupítiheesh, yaas'ára.
   The First People went in there all the time, since they were talking over what humans were going to do.
   
   Source: Yaas, "How Grizzly Bear Got his Ears Burnt Off" (JPH_KT-01a) | read full text
9. 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
10. 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
11. uum vúra yáv, vaa kumá'ii.
    She is really good, that's why.
    
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: adjectives (VS-27) | read full text
    Spoken by Vina Smith | Download | Play
12. uum vúrava yáv vaa kumá'ii.
    That's why she is good.
    
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: adjectives (VS-27) | read full text
    Spoken by Vina Smith | Download | Play
13. hûut kumá'ii?
    Why?
    
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions, answers, possessives (VS-29) | read full text
    Spoken by Vina Smith | Download | Play
14. kári vúra naa nîinamich, víri vaa kumá'ii payêem naa uum púfaat neekyâatihara.
    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
15. 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
16. víri vaa kumá'ii pa'itíhaan nuu xás nukyáviichvuti aa-- íshaha káru núktaamti.
    That’s why we always had to work then ah–we also carried water.
    
    Source: Violet Super, Violet Working (VSu-04) | read full text
17. ítam víri vaa kumá'ii úpeen tá púfaat mu'ípih.
    That's why it says he doesn't have any bones.
    
    Source: Violet Super, Why the eel has no bones (VSu-06) | read full text
    Spoken by Violet Super | Download | Play
18. víri vaa kumá'ii koovúra patûupichas pamusxíchak.
    So that's why they all have small waists.
    
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text
19. víri vaa kumá'ii patupiytúykaanva.
    That's why he kicked it out.
    
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Homecoming" (WB_KL-02) | read full text
20. xás uxus, " hûut kumá'ii papunayâavahitihara."
    And he thought, "Why am I not getting full?"
    
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text
21. xás úuth upiytúykaanva páyuux, uknamxánahich mú'uuthkam, víri vaa kumá'ii pakêech usirishkírahitih.
    And he kicked the dirt out in the river, out from uknamxánahich, that's why there's a big bar (there).
    
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text
22. 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
23. víriva kumá'ii kunípeenti " xúux mukrivruhvánamich."
    For that reason they call it "xuux's little rolling-place."
    
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Duck Hawk and His Wife" (WB_KL-26) | read full text
24. víriva kumá'ii vaa káan kích kun'áraarahitihanik pirishkâarim.
    For that reason grizzly bears lived only there.
    
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Duck Hawk and His Wife" (WB_KL-27) | read full text
25. pakunxútih " kíri nu'áapunma ' hûut kumá’ii pakunyíkihiti' " púyava kári xás kunpíkav xánkiit.
    When they thought, "Let's find out why they are sick," then they summoned Bullhead.
    
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Blue Jay As Doctor" (WB_KL-28) | read full text
26. kumá'ii papuna'ûusurutihara.
    For that reason I can't take (the disease object) out.
    
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Blue Jay As Doctor" (WB_KL-29) | read full text
27. xás yaas'ara'îin kunipêer " iim kumá'ii pa'ára u'íinahaak i'áamtiheeshap, vaa kúth puharíxay xúrihitiheesh.
    Then Man told her, "For your sake, when people exist, they will eat you, because of that they will never hunger.
    
    Source: Lottie Beck, "The Story of Tan Oak Acorn" (WB_KL-30) | read full text
28. kári xás uxúti pakachakâach " hûut áta kumá'ii pa'ípat múxuun kích kúnish poopátatih."
    And Blue Jay thought, "I wonder why he sort of eats only Doe's acorn soup?"
    
    Source: Mamie Offield, "How Deer Meat Was Lost and Regained" (WB_KL-33) | read full text
29. púyava kumá'ii pamúyuup aaxkúnish poomchaaxrípaanik.
    So for that reason his eyes are red from the heat that came out.
    
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Why Towhee Has Red Eyes" (WB_KL-36) | read full text
30. víriva kumá'ii akráa púfaat mu'ípih.
    For that reason Eel has no bones.
    
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Eel and Sucker" (WB_KL-37) | read full text
31. vaa kumá'ii pa'áathva ukyáavunaati.
    That's why he scared them.
    
    Source: Mamie Offield, "The Story of Slug" (WB_KL-38) | read full text
32. xás kunipíti pa'asiktávaansa, " púya hûut kumá'ii peekxáram xás uvaaramôotih."
    And the women said, "Say, why does she always go off in the evening?"
    
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Story of Bear" (WB_KL-40) | read full text
33. vaa kumá'ii pavaa ukupítih, ikxáram xás póomkaanvutih.
    That's why she did that, she gathered food in the evening.
    
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Story of Bear" (WB_KL-40) | read full text
34. púyava hínu páy uum vírusur, víri vaa kumá'ii pátaay úmkaanvutih.
    So there she was a bear, that's why she gathered (so) much.
    
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Story of Bear" (WB_KL-40) | read full text
35. fâat kumá'ii paneehyûunishtih."
    Why is she shouting at me?"
    
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Creation of Eels" (WB_KL-41) | read full text
36. víri vaa kumá'ii payêem íshaha, xás vúra kumá'ii úmsiipti aah.
    For that reason it's water now, that's why it puts out fire.
    
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Victory Over Fire" (WB_KL-45) | read full text
37. káru vaa kumá'ii koovúra kumakeemishatunvêechas kun'áayti aah.
    And that's why all the little wild animals are afraid of fire.
    
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Victory Over Fire" (WB_KL-45) | read full text
38. kári xás vaa upiip, " iimkun úm kúth ni'íiftih, iimkun úm kumá'ii ni'íiftih.
    And he said, "Am I growing up for you people, am I growing up for your sake?
    
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Wrestling Medicine" (WB_KL-55) | read full text
39. vaa kumá'ii payêem áraar kun'áraarahitih.
    That's why people are living now.
    
    Source: Mamie Offield, "The Flood" (WB_KL-56) | read full text
40. 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
41. " páy uum pakumá'ii axvâak ukúheesh.
    "This one is so that (a person) will have a headache.
    
    Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil and the Girl" (WB_KL-64) | read full text
42. páy uum pakumá'ii pavishváan ukúheesh."
    This one will give him a stomach-ache."
    
    Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil and the Girl" (WB_KL-64) | read full text
43. vaa kumá'ii payêepshas pasárip itharípriik, aayâach vaa uum vâaramsas káru xúnutich.
    The hazel twigs are good in the fir forest for this reason, it is because they are long and flexible.
    
    Source: Emily Donahue, "Preparing Basket Materials" (WB_KL-85) | read full text
44. kúmá'ii papuna'ûusurutih.
    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