Vina Smith: Sentences: questions, answers, possessives (2010)
Primary participant: Vina Smith (speaker)
Date: 2010
Project identifier: VS-29
Publication details: Unpublished (recorded by Line Mikkelsen, Alice Gaby, and Andrew Garrett on May 1, 2010)
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| [1] | t-ée | xviipha | hum |
| PERF-2s(>3) | be.angry | or |
| Are you mad? |
| [2] | t-ée | kviit-ha | hum |
| PERF-2s(>3) | sleep | or |
| Are you sleepy? |
| [3] | akâay | vaa | t-óo | kúupha |
| who | that | PERF-3s(>3) | do |
| Who did that? |
| [4] | hûut | pa-mí-thvuy |
| how | the-2sPOSS-name |
| What's your name? |
| [5] | fâat | i-xú-tih | kíri | ni-'av |
| what | 2s(>3)-think-DUR | I.wish | 1s(>3)-eat |
| What do you want to eat? |
| [6] | p-eeshkeesh | hûut | kích |
| the-river | how | only |
| How is the river? |
| [7] | akâay | pa-mi-'áraar-as |
| who | the-2sPOSS-human-PL |
| Who are your relatives? |
| [8] | u-pathríh-eesh | hum |
| 3s(>3)-rain-FUT | or |
| Is it going to rain? |
| [9] | chí | u-pathríh-eesh |
| soon | 3s(>3)-rain-FUT |
| It's going to rain. |
| [10] | hûut | kích | iim |
| how | only | 2sg. |
| How are you? |
| [11] | hûut | kích | uum | Phil |
| how | only | 3.SG | Phil |
| How is Phil? |
| [12] | íshaha | tá | kú-xrah |
| water | PERF | 2pl(>3)-thirst.for |
| Are you guys thirsty? |
| [13] | koovúra | t-i-tháfip | pa-'áv |
| all | PERF-2s(>3)-devour | the-food |
| You ate up all the food. |
| [14] | vaa | mú-xuun |
| that | 3sPOSS-acorn.soup |
| That's his acorn soup. |
| [15] | vaa | uum | xuntápan |
| that | 3.SG | acorn |
| That's acorns. |
| [16] | páy | uum | pa-naní-'av | hum |
| this | 3.SG | the-1sPOSS-food | or |
| Is this my food? |
| [17] | páfip-i |
| use.up-IMPER |
| Drink it up. |
| [18] | sára | amáyav |
| bread | good-tasting |
| This bread tastes good. |
| [19] | amáyav | pa-sára |
| good-tasting | the-bread |
| The bread tastes good. |
| [20] | pa-mu-sára | uum | amáyav |
| the-3sPOSS-bread | 3.SG | good-tasting |
| His bread tastes good. |
| [21] | hôoy | pa-mí-chnaat |
| where | the-2sPOSS-rat |
| Where is your rat? |
| [22] | akvaat | húm | i-víshtaan-tih |
| raccoon | or | 2s(>3)-like.(food)-DUR |
| Do you like (to eat) raccoon? |
| [23] | hûut | kumá'ii |
| how | because.of |
| Why? |
| [24] | hôoy | pa-mu-'ápsuun |
| where | the-3sPOSS-snake |
| Where is his snake? |
| [25] | yáxa | pa-mu-'ápxaan |
| look! | the-3sPOSS-cap |
| Look at his hat. |
| [26] | pa-mu-'ápsiih | xâapk-i |
| the-3sPOSS-leg | kick-IMPER |
| Kick his leg! |
| [27] | pa-nani-'ápsiih | t-óo | kúha |
| the-1sPOSS-leg | PERF-3s(>3) | be.sick |
| My leg hurts. |
| [28] | hûut | t-u-'íin | pa-mi-'ápsiih |
| how | PERF-3s(>3)-experience.something.unpleasant | the-2sPOSS-leg |
| What's wrong with your leg? |
| [29] | tá | na-víshtar |
| PERF | 1s-like.(food) |
| I like it. |
| [30] | uum | hûut | amáyav |
| 3.SG | how | good-tasting |
| It tasted really good. |
| [31] | vúra | uum | yáv |
| Intensive | 3.SG | good |
| It's good. |
| [32] | fâatva | u-chuuphí-tih |
| something | 3s(>3)-speak-DUR |
| He said something. |
| [33] | koovúra | yâamach-as | pa-nanú-vuup |
| all | pretty-PL | the-1plPOSS-neck |
| We all have pretty necks. |
| [34] | pa-mu-'átraax | t-óo | kúha |
| the-3sPOSS-shoulder | PERF-3s(>3) | be.sick |
| His arm hurts. |
| [35] | naa | vúra | ikyavíchvaan |
| 1sg. | Intensive | worker |
| I'm a worker. |
| [36] | akâay | mú-thyur |
| who | 3sPOSS-car |
| Whose car? |
| [37] | mú-thvaay | t-óo | kúha |
| 3sPOSS-chest | PERF-3s(>3) | be.sick |
| His chest hurts. |
| [38] | xayfáat | iim | vishvánkaam |
| don't! | 2sg. | big-bellied |
| Don't get a big belly. |
| [39] | i-thítiv | hum |
| 2s(>3)-hear | or |
| Did you hear it? |
| [40] | puxich | t-u-yúnyuunha |
| very.much | PERF-3s(>3)-be.crazy |
| He's really crazy. |
| [41] | íkiich | vúra | xára | vúra | tá | ní-krii |
| maybe | Intensive | long.time | Intensive | PERF | 1s(>3)-live |
| Maybe I have lived a long time. |
| [42] | arara'íshpuk | hum |
| dentalium.shells | or |
| [Do you mean] Indian money? |
| [43] | vúra | ípih | uum | t-óo | spat |
| Intensive | bone | 3.SG | PERF-3s(>3) | be.broken |
| Her leg is broken. |
| [44] | pay | uum | vaa | kun-ipí-tih |
| this | 3.SG | that | 3pl(>3s)-say-DUR |
| They are saying that. |
| [45] | Arch | vúra | t-óo-piip | hum |
| Arch | Intensive | PERF-3s(>3)-say | or |
| Did Arch say that? |
| [46] | koovúra | kun-pavyíiship-eesh | payêem |
| all | 3pl(>3s)-go.away.again.(pl.)-FUT | now |
| They are all going to go back home now. |
| [47] | páykuuk | uum | pa-pôos |
| over.there | 3.SG | the-boss |
| The boss is over there. |
| [48] | Arch | uum | t-u-thítiv |
| Arch | 3.SG | PERF-3s(>3)-hear |
| Arch is listening. |
| [49] | t-óo | páachur | pa-mu-'íshkiit |
| PERF-3s(>3) | lose | the-3sPOSS-luck |
| She lost her luck. |
| [50] | vaa | apxantínihich-as | pa-nu-chuphuníshkoo-naa-tih |
| that | white.man-PL | NOMZ-1pl(>3)-talk.to-PL-DUR |
| We are talking to those white people. |
| [51] | yáxa | páykuuk | káru | apxantínihich | káru | pay | apxantínihich | káru | pay | apxantínihich |
| look! | over.there | also | white.man | also | this | white.man | also | this | white.man |
| Look at the white person over there and that white person and that white person. |
| [52] | araráhih | ní-chuupha |
| Karuk.language | 1s(>3)-speak |
| I am speaking Indian language. |
| [53] | kun-yunyúunhi-naa-tih |
| 3pl(>3s)-be.crazy-PL-DUR |
| They are all crazy. |
| [54] | pay | vúra | uum | u-xu-tih | i-yunyúunhi-tih |
| this | Intensive | 3.SG | 3s(>3)-think-DUR | 2s(>3)-be.crazy-DUR |
| He [that one] thinks you are crazy. |
| [55] | uum | vaa | páykuuk | vúra | uum | vaa | yav |
| 3.SG | that | over.there | Intensive | 3.SG | that | good |
| The one over there, she's good. |
| [56] | hãã | vaa | amáyav | pa-táay | ni-'áv-at |
| yes | that | good-tasting | NOMZ-much | 1s(>3)-eat-PAST |
| Yes, what I ate was good. |
| [57] | koovúra | pa-ni-tháfiip-tih |
| all | NOMZ-1s(>3)-devour-DUR |
| I ate all of it. |
| [58] | púfaat | naní-shpuk |
| nothing | 1sPOSS-dentalium.shells |
| I don't have any money. |