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man'áta maybe, perhaps, I don't know
Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #4236 | revised Nov 14 2014
man'áta • PCL • maybe, perhaps, I don't know Variant: manâa.
| Derivation: | man áta |
| why... maybe |
Source: WB 966.1, p.366
Sentence examples (6)
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man'áta pakéevniikich,
uum pufâat múkyav.
Maybe an old woman, she had nothing to do.Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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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 -
man'áta.
I don't know.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20b) | read full text
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kári xás kunpiip, "
man'áta."
And they said, "I don't know."Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Origin of the Pikiawish" (WB_KL-48) | read full text -
kári xás uxús "
man'áta pákuri nikyâavish.
And she thought, "Maybe I'll make a song.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Medicine for the Return of a Sweetheart" (WB_KL-49) | read full text -
xás upíip "
man'áta,
tá punapikrôokara."
And he said, "I don’t know, I've forgotten."Source: Julia Starritt, "How the Rube Family Was Named" (WB_KL-66) | read full text