Ararahih'urípih
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pikyaar / pikyáara- to finish

Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #4903 | revised Oct 31 2014

pikyaar / pikyáara- V • to finish

Source: WB 1135, p.374; TK 88.3

  • íp napatánviishat hûut koo tipíkyaar. He asked me how much I'd finished. [Reference: KV]


Sentence examples (20)


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  1. káruma tá íp kunpikyaarat paxuun.
    Already they had cooked the acorn mush.
    Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text
  2. vúra puharíxay pikyáareesh pamívik.
    You'll never finish your weaving.
    Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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  3. tá nipikyâar patas.
    I have finished the fence.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: actions and instrumentals (VS-21) | read full text
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  4. tá nipikyâar pananichúupha.
    I finished talking.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: actions and instrumentals (VS-21) | read full text
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  5. tá nipikyâar pananipithxa pananisáanva.
    I finished washing my clothes.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: actions and instrumentals (VS-21) | read full text
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  6. panishxáaytih tá nipikyâar.
    I finished fishing.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: actions and instrumentals (VS-21) | read full text
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  7. xas nipikyâar.
    Then I finish it.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about weaving a hat (VS-37) | read full text
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  8. xas vúra tá nipikyâar.
    Then I finished it.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about weaving a hat (VS-37) | read full text
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  9. yáv tá nipikyâar.
    I finished it well.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about weaving a hat (VS-37) | read full text
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  10. nipikyâar.
    I finished it.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about weaving a hat (VS-37) | read full text
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  11. xás chavúra kunpíkyaar.
    And finally they finished.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-08) | read full text
  12. kári xás uum paxuntápan uum vúra pupikyáarara pamúpxaan.
    But Tan Oak Acorn didn’t finish her cap.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Story of Tan Oak Acorn" (WB_KL-31) | read full text
  13. púyava tá kunpíkyaar.
    Then they finished.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "How Deer Meat Was Lost and Regained" (WB_KL-33) | read full text
  14. kári xás tupikyaanáyaachha.
    And he finished it good.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Lizard and Grizzly Bear" (WB_KL-34) | read full text
  15. kári xás patá kunpíkyaar pakuntáxraati kári xás asmáax " tîi kan'ífiki pataxratêep."
    And when they finished attaching arrowheads, then Towhee thought, "Let me pick up the scraps".
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Why Towhee Has Red Eyes" (WB_KL-36) | read full text
  16. kári xás kunpiip, " víri vaa yáas tá nupíkyaar.
    And they said, "We have just finished.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Origin of the Pikiawish" (WB_KL-48) | read full text
  17. patupíkyaar poochiihvîichvuti kári xás peekxuraráhaan uxús " ii! tá nasáyriihva.
    When she finished singing her love song, then Evening Star thought, "Oh, I'm lonesome!
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Medicine for the Return of a Sweetheart" (WB_KL-49) | read full text
  18. víri vaa peepíkyaarahaak víri vaa imáheesh ' vaa káan asa'ípan úkrii atipimáamvaan.'
    When you finish, you will see a buzzard sit there on top of a rock.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "A Trip to the Land of the Dead" (WB_KL-58) | read full text
  19. púyava tá kunpíkyaar.
    Then they finished.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "A Trip to the Land of the Dead" (WB_KL-58) | read full text
  20. tá nipíkyaar koovúra.
    I finished everything.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Pikiawish at Katimin" (WB_KL-83) | read full text