Karuk Dictionary
by William Bright and Susan Gehr (© Karuk Tribe)
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núu we, us
Dictionary Entry
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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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 -
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
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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
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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 -
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 -
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
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xás káru nuu aah nukyáati îikam.
And we made a fire outside.
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núu ithvóon.
We are eager.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: adjectives (VS-28) | read full text
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nuu koovúra ithvóon payêem.
We are all eager now.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: adjectives (VS-28) | read full text
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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