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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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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 -
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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tá nipikyâar patas.
I have finished the fence.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: actions and instrumentals (VS-21) | read full text
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tá nipikyâar pananichúupha.
I finished talking.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: actions and instrumentals (VS-21) | read full text
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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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panishxáaytih tá nipikyâar.
I finished fishing.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: actions and instrumentals (VS-21) | read full text
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xas nipikyâar.
Then I finish it.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about weaving a hat (VS-37) | read full text
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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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yáv tá nipikyâar.
I finished it well.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about weaving a hat (VS-37) | read full text
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nipikyâar.
I finished it.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about weaving a hat (VS-37) | read full text
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xás chavúra kunpíkyaar.
And finally they finished.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-08) | read full text -
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 -
púyava tá kunpíkyaar.
Then they finished.Source: Mamie Offield, "How Deer Meat Was Lost and Regained" (WB_KL-33) | read full text -
kári xás tupikyaanáyaachha.
And he finished it good.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Lizard and Grizzly Bear" (WB_KL-34) | read full text -
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 -
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 -
patupíkyaar poochiihvîichvuti kári xás peekxuraráhaan uxús "
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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 -
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 -
púyava tá kunpíkyaar.
Then they finished.Source: Mamie Offield, "A Trip to the Land of the Dead" (WB_KL-58) | read full text -
tá nipíkyaar koovúra.
I finished everything.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Pikiawish at Katimin" (WB_KL-83) | read full text