Ararahih'urípih
A Dictionary and Text Corpus of the Karuk Language

Vina Smith: Sentences: pretty sisters (2012)

Primary participant: Vina Smith (speaker)
Date: 2012
Project identifier: VS-26
Publication details: Unpublished (recorded on March 31, 2012 by Line Mikkelsen and Clare Sandy)


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[1]

pananikústaan uum yâamach.

My sister is pretty.

[2]

pananikústaan uum yâamachheesh.

My sister will be pretty.

[3]

pananikústaan uum yâamach payêem.

My sister is pretty now.

[4]

pananikústaan vúra mít uum yâamach.

My sister was pretty (long ago).

[5]

pananikústaan uum payêem puyâamachhara.

My sister is not pretty now.

[6]

koovúra pananikústaan uum yâamachas.

My sisters are all pretty.

[7]

koovúra pananikústaan vúra yâamachas.

All my sisters are pretty.

[8]

pananikústaan koovúra yâamachas.

My sisters are all pretty.

[9]

koovúra yâamachasheesh.

They will all be pretty.

[10]

pananikústaansa vúra yâamachas payêem.

My sisters are pretty now.

[11]

vúra mít yâamachas.

They were once pretty.

[12]

pananikústaansa vúra mít uum yâamachas.

My sisters were once pretty.