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

Vina Smith: Sentences about looking and feeling a certain way (2015)

Primary participant: Vina Smith (speaker)
Date: 2015
Project identifier: VS-32
Publication details: Unpublished (recorded by Karie Moorman and Clare Sandy in Yreka on April 18, 2015)

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[1] koovúra    titháfip    pa'áama   
all    you.devoured.it    the.salmon   
You ate up all the salmon.
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[2] koovúra    titháfip    pa'áama    púfaat    vúra    naa   
all    you.devoured.it    the.salmon    nothing    Intensive    1sg.   
You ate up all the salmon, and I don't have any.
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[3] naa    púfaat   
1sg.    nothing   
I don't have any.
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[4] íim    titháfip    pa'áama   
2sg.    you.devoured.it.    the.salmon   
You ate up the salmon.
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[5] papúsihich    vúra    uum    íshriiv   
the.cat    Intensive    3.SG    fat   
The cat is fat.
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[6] papúsihich    vúra    uum    táay    poo'áamtih    xas    vúra    uum    puxích    tu'íshriivha   
the.cat    Intensive    3.SG    much    that.she.ate    then    Intensive    3.SG    very.much    she.got.fat   
The cat ate so much, and she became fat.
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[7] papúsihich    vúra    pu'áamtihara    xás    vúra    payêem    tá    áxaska   
the.cat    Intensive    she.was.not.eating    then    Intensive    now    PERF    thin   
The cat didn't eat, and now she is skinny.
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[8] vúra    úum    táay    pamu'ífunih    papúsihich   
Intensive    3.SG    much    her.hair    the.cat   
The cat has lots of hair.
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[9] papúsihich    úum    púfaat    pamu'ífunih    payêem   
the.cat    3.SG    nothing    her.hair    now   
The cat doesn't have any hair now.
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[10] pa'ishkêesh    tupiváxrah   
the.river    it.has.dried.up   
The river has dried up [i.e. it is shallow].
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[11] tupiváxrah   
it.is.drying.up   
It has dried up [i.e. it is shallow].
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[12] vúra    úum    puxích    tu'úh    pa'ishkêesh   
Intensive    3.SG    very.much    it.has.risen    the.river   
The river has risen a lot [i.e. it is deep].
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[13] tu'uh   
it.has.risen   
It (the water) has risen.
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[14] pa'ishkêesh    vúra    úum    puxích    tu'uh   
the.river    Intensive    3.SG    very.much    it.has.risen   
The river has risen a lot.
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[15] pa'ishkêesh    vúra    puxích    tu'uh   
the.river    Intensive    very.much    it.has.risen   
The river has risen a lot.
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[16] pa'ishkêesh    u'úuhtih   
the.river    it.is.rising   
The river is rising.
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[17] vúra    uum    kúnish    puyáv    imúsahatihara   
Intensive    3.SG    sort.of    not.good    you.are.looking   
You don't look so good.
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[18] puyáv    imúsahatihara   
not.good    you.are.looking.   
You don't look good.
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[19] náa    vúra    kúnish    kéevniikich   
1sg.    Intensive    sort.of    old.woman.(dimin.)   
I am sort of an old woman.
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[20] yáv    vúra    yâamach    payupsítanach    xás    vúra    uum        pakêech    úkyav    xás    vúra    uum    imusakêem   
good    Intensive    pretty    the.baby    then    Intensive    3.SG    after.while    when.big    she.made?    then    Intensive    3.SG    ugly   
She was pretty as a baby, but after a while, when she got bigger, she looked ugly.
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[21] manâa    vaa    pa'ávansa    vúra    vaa    puxích    mít    vúra    itíhaan    vúra    ikpíhan   
maybe    that    the.man    Intensive    that    very.much    near.past    Intensive    always    Intensive    strong   
Maybe (you can say) that the man was always strong.
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[22] itíhaan    vúra    vaa    ikpíhan    káru    xás    vúra    vaa    poo'if    vúra    vaa    itíhaan    vúra    ikpíhan   
strong    Intensive    that    strong    also    then    Intensive    that    when.he.grew.up    Intensive    that    strong    Intensive    strong   
He is always strong, and when he grew up he was just always strong.
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[23] íp    poo'íf    xás    vúra    vaa    ikpíhan   
PAST    when.he.grew.up?    then    Intensive    that    strong   
Growing up he was strong.
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[24] xás    vúra    itíhaan    vúra    vaa    ikpíhan   
then    Intensive    strong    Intensive    that    strong   
He was always strong.
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[25] itíhaan    vúra    vaa    ikpíhan   
strong    Intensive    that    strong   
He was always strong.
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[26] poo'íifti    xás    vúra    vaa    kâarim    vúra    púfaat    pu'ûum    táay    vúra    púfaat   
when.he.was.growing.up    then    Intensive    that    bad    Intensive    nothing    not.barely    much    Intensive    nothing   
When he was growing up he was poor, he didn't have hardly anything, he didn't have much.
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[27] xás    vúra    vaa    tu'if   
then    Intensive    that    he.grew.up   
He grew up that way.
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[28] vúra    púfaat    uum    vúra    mu'ám    mu'uup    xás    vúra    vaa    kâarim    xás    vúra    vaa    poo'íiftih   
Intensive    nothing    3.SG    Intensive    his.food    his.possessions    then    Intensive    that    bad    then    Intensive    that    how.he.grew.up   
He didn't have any food or possessions, he was poor, that is how he grew up.
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[29] vúra    uum    kâanimich    pa'asiktávaan   
3s(>3)    3.SG    poor    the.woman   
The lady is poor.
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[30] pa'áraar    uum    vúra    pupítihara   
the.woman    3.SG    Intensive    the.woman   
The Indian people didn't say that.
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[31] vâaram    ti'íf   
long    you.have.grown   
You grew tall.
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[32] kúnish    apxantínihich    imusahitih   
sort.of    white.man    you.look.like.that   
You white people look like that.
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[33] pa'ávansa    ipshûunkunich   
you.look.like.that    low   
The man is short.
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[34] pa'ávansa    ipshûunkunich    arara'ávansa   
you.look.like.that    low    you.look.like.that   
The man is short, the Indian man.
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[35] apxantinihich'ávansa    uum    kúnish    vâaramas   
white.man    3.SG    sort.of    tall.ones   
White men are tall.
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[36] púfaat    mikáfih   
nothing    your.coffee   
You haven't had your coffee.
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[37] xás    payêem    vúra    itníivka   
then    now    Intensive    mean   
And now you are mean.
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[38] vaa    vúra    uum    puxích    tá    nafuráthfip   
that    jab    3.SG    very.much    PERF    I.am.cranky   
I am really cranky.
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[39] káru    puxích    tufuráthfip   
also    very.much    he.is.cranky   
He is really cranky, too.
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[40] íim    káru    pee'áhooti    vúrava    kúnish    furáthfip   
2sg.    also    when.you.arrived    just    sort.of    be.nervous   
When you arrived it seemed like you were cranky.
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[41] íp    peevôonfuruk    íp    kúnish    vaa    ifuráthfiptih   
PAST    when.you.entered.the.house    PAST    sort.of    that    you.were.cranky   
It seemed like you were cranky when you came in.
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[42] íkiich    pami'ávansa    teexviphûunish   
maybe    you.were.cranky    you.were.cranky   
Maybe you got mad at your man.
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[43] íkiich    ápapkam    vaa    mi'asímnaam    itxâariheen   
maybe    other.side    that    your.bed    you.woke.up   
Maybe you woke up on the wrong side of the bed.
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[44] íp    u'áasishrihat   
PAST    she.laid.down   
She lay down.
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[45] íp    u'áasishriheen    kúnish    vaa    puyáv    ipmahóonkoonatihara   
PAST    she.laid.down    sort.of    that    not.good    you.are.not.feeling   
She laid down, she wasn't feeling good.
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[46] páy    ni'áveesh   
this    I.will.eat   
I am going to eat that.
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[47] naa    nitxâarih   
1sg.    I.woke.up   
I woke up.
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[48] xás    vúra    uum    yáv    neepmahóonkoonatih   
then    Intensive    3.SG    good    I.am.feeling   
I am feeling better.
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[49] íim    hûut    ipmahóonkoonatih   
2sg.    how    you.are.feeling   
How do you you feel?
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[50] íim    yáv    ipmahóonkoonatih   
2sg.    good    you.are.feeling   
You are feeling better.
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[51] payêem    xas   
now    then   
What else?
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[52] yáv    ikyáati    papúsihich   
good    you.are.doing    the.cat   
You treat the cat good.
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[53] xáyfaat    íkyav    vaa    kâarim    ikyáatih   
don't!    you.do.it    that    bad    you.are.doing.it   
Don't treat her [the cat] that way, you are treating her badly.
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[54] íp    poovôonfuruk    uksáahtih   
PAST    when.she.came.in.the.house    she.was.laughing   
When she came in the house she was laughing.
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[55] uum    káru    poovôonfurukati    puyáv    ipmahóonkoonatihara   
3.SG    also    when.she.was.coming.in    not.good    she.is.not.feeling   
And when she came in she was not feeling good.
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[56] îikam    paaxíitichas    kunihmárathunanaatih    xás    vúra    vaa    káan    kuniksháahtih   
outdoors    the.kids    they.are.running.around    then    Intensive    that    there    they.are.laughing   
The kids are all running around outside, they are happy out there.
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[57] îikam    paaxíitichas    kunihmárathununaatih    xas    vúra    koovúra    yáv    kunipmahóonkoonatih   
outdoors    the.kids    they.are.running.around    then    Intensive    all    good    they.are.feeling   
The kids are running around outside, they are all feeling happy.
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[58] pûuhara    naa    nixúti    îikam    vúra    káan    kunihmárathununaatih    xás    koovúra    vaa    vúra    yáv    kunipmahóonkoonatih   
no    1sg.    I.am.thinking    outdoors    Intensive    there    they.were.running.around    then    all    that    Intensive    good    they.are.feeling   
No, I think they are running around there outside, they are all feeling happy.
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[59] oh    vúra    utátuyishrihti    vaa    vúra    páy    paporch   
oh    Intensive    she.finished.sweeping.it    that    Intensive    this    the.porch   
Oh, she finished sweeping the porch.
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[60] káru    pootátuyishrihat    koovúra    paporch   
also    she.didn't.finish.sweeping.it    all    the.porch   
And she swept the whole porch.
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[61] vúra    uum    chêech    tutátuyish   
Intensive    3.SG    quickly    she.is.sweeping.it   
She is sweeping it fast.
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[62] chêech    tutátuyishrih    paporch   
quickly    she.swept.it    the.porch   
She is sweeping the porch fast.
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[63] vúra    chêech    tutátuyishrih    paporch   
Intensive    quickly    she.swept.it    the.porch   
She is sweeping the porch fast.
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