Ararahih'urípih
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núu we, us

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lexicon ID #4380 | revised Nov 08 2005

núu PRON • we, us

Source: WB 1020, p.368

  • ôok páy nuu tanupkêevish. Right here we have been transformed. [Reference: DeA&F 1 Salmon 060]
  • xás kunpiip, nuu vaa nanu'ífunih. And they said, "It's our hair." [Reference: WB 21: Hair In The Soup 040]


Sentence examples (18)


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  1. xas kunpíip, "nuu nusêeyti pávaa kookapákurih."
    Then they said, "We don't know that kind of song!"
    Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text
  2. nuu vúra púvaa kinkuphêesh.
    We can't do that.
    Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
    Spoken by Grace Davis | Download | Play
  3. nuu vúra yith va'áraar, yith kuma'áraaras,
    We're different people, a different kind of people,
    Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
    Spoken by Violet Super | Download | Play
  4. xás kunipêer: " nuu chími nuvyîihshipreevish, chími nu'ákunvanveesh."
    Then they told him: "We are going out, we are going hunting."
    Source: Yaas, "How Grizzly Bear Got his Ears Burnt Off" (JPH_KT-01a) | read full text
  5. nuu vúra pakuma'áraaras vúra pufâat úhish ipsháruktihaphanik, xáat máruk kunifyúkutihanik.
    Our kind of people never used to pack seed home, I do not care if they had been going around upslope.
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, They Knew That Seeds Will Grow (JPH_TKIC-IV.3) | read full text
  6. ararachúupha nuu payêem nuchúuphitih.
    We are talking our Indian language now.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about perception, animals, verb tenses (SD-VS-01) | read full text
    Spoken by Sonny Davis | Download | Play
  7. xás káru nuu aah nukyáati îikam.
    And we made a fire outside.
    Source: Vina Smith, Washing (VS-24) | read full text
    Spoken by Vina Smith | Download | Play
  8. núu ithvóon.
    We are eager.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: adjectives (VS-28) | read full text
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  9. nuu koovúra ithvóon payêem.
    We are all eager now.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: adjectives (VS-28) | read full text
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  10. 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
  11. kári xás kunpíip " nuu páy peethívthaaneen itaharâan nupíhiroopithvutih."
    And they said, "We dance around this earth ten times."
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Trades Songs and Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-09) | read full text
  12. yakún nuu tá nu'ífikar xuntápan."
    We're going to pick acorns."
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Gives Salmon and Acorns to Mankind" (WB_KL-17) | read full text
  13. xás âanaxus upiip, " chími nuu ka'íru."
    And Weasel said, "Let me and you (do it) too."
    Source: Daisy Jones, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-20) | read full text
  14. xás kunpiip, " nuu vaa nanu'ífunih.
    And they said, "It's our hair.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "The Hair in the Soup" (WB_KL-21) | read full text
  15. kúna nuu yaas'arará'uuthkam kích nu'irukúunpiithvutiheesh."
    But we will be sitting around only in front of rich people."
    Source: Lottie Beck, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-23) | read full text
  16. nuu tá núpthith panunúpxaan."
    We've finished weaving our caps."
    Source: Lottie Beck, "The Story of Tan Oak Acorn" (WB_KL-30) | read full text
  17. nuu tá nuxúrihinaa káru tá núkviitha.
    We're hungry and we're sleeping.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "How Deer Meat Was Lost and Regained" (WB_KL-33) | read full text
  18. xás kunxús " nuu káru vaa tîi núkuuphi."
    And they thought, "Let us do that too!"
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Why Lightning Strikes Trees" (WB_KL-44) | read full text