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sêey to not know, to not know how
Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #5361 | revised Dec 03 2015
sêey • V • to not know, to not know how
Derivative (1)
seeykúupha "to not to get along with (someone)"
Source: WB 1223, p.377
- ishêeytihum pakúriihva. Don't you know how to sing? [Reference: KV]
- nuu nusêeyti pávaa kookapákurih. We don't know that kind of song. [Reference: DeA&F 2 Old Man Turtle 062]
Sentence examples (3)
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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 -
hãã víri vaa hûutva kípa hûutva kupakupháheesh,
tá naséey.
How would I do that? I don't know.Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
Spoken by Madeline Davis | Download | Play -
víri manâa hôoy if áta ishêeyti,
kumá'ii peevíikti.
Well, it's not true that you don't know how, because you're weaving.Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
Spoken by Grace Davis | Download | Play