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Publication details: Unpublished (recorded by Karie Moorman and Clare Sandy in Yreka on April 18, 2015)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.
You ate up all the salmon.
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[2] koovúra titháfip pa'áama, púfaat vúra naa.
You ate up all the salmon, and I don't have any.
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[3] naa púfaat.
I don't have any.
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[4] íim titháfip pa'áama.
You ate up the salmon.
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[5] papúsihich vúra uum íshriiv.
The cat is fat.
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[6] papúsihich vúra uum táay poo'áamtih, xas vúra uum puxích tu'íshriivha.
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 didn't eat, and now she is skinny.
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[8] vúra úum táay pamu'ífunih, papúsihich.
The cat has lots of hair.
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[9] papúsihich úum púfaat pamu'ífunih payêem.
The cat doesn't have any hair now.
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[10] pa'ishkêesh tupiváxrah.
The river has dried up [i.e. it is shallow].
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[11] tupiváxrah.
It has dried up [i.e. it is shallow].
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[12] vúra úum puxích tu'úh, pa'ishkêesh.
The river has risen a lot [i.e. it is deep].
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[13] tu'uh.
It (the water) has risen.
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[14] pa'ishkêesh vúra úum puxích tu'uh.
The river has risen a lot.
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[15] pa'ishkêesh vúra puxích tu'uh.
The river has risen a lot.
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[16] pa'ishkêesh u'úuhtih.
The river is rising.
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[17] vúra uum kúnish puyáv imúsahatihara.
You don't look so good.
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[18] puyáv imúsahatihara.
You don't look good.
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[19] náa vúra kúnish kéevniikich.
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.
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 (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.
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.
Growing up he was strong.
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[24] xás vúra itíhaan vúra vaa ikpíhan.
He was always strong.
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[25] itíhaan vúra vaa ikpíhan.
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 he was poor, he didn't have hardly anything, he didn't have much.
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[27] xás vúra vaa tu'if.
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.
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.
The lady is poor.
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[30] pa'áraar uum vúra pupítihara.
The Indian people didn't say that.
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[31] vâaram ti'íf.
You grew tall.
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[32] kúnish apxantínihich imusahitih.
You white people look like that.
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[33] pa'ávansa ipshûunkunich.
The man is short.
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[34] pa'ávansa ipshûunkunich, arara'ávansa.
The man is short, the Indian man.
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[35] apxantinihich'ávansa uum kúnish vâaramas.
White men are tall.
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[36] púfaat mikáfih.
You haven't had your coffee.
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[37] xás payêem vúra itníivka.
And now you are mean.
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[38] vaa vúra uum puxích tá nafuráthfip.
I am really cranky.
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[39] káru puxích tufuráthfip.
He is really cranky, too.
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[40] íim káru pee'áhooti vúrava kúnish furáthfip.
When you arrived it seemed like you were cranky.
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[41] íp peevôonfuruk íp kúnish vaa ifuráthfiptih.
It seemed like you were cranky when you came in.
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[42] íkiich pami'ávansa teexviphûunish.
Maybe you got mad at your man.
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[43] íkiich ápapkam vaa mi'asímnaam itxâariheen.
Maybe you woke up on the wrong side of the bed.
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[44] íp u'áasishrihat.
She lay down.
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[45] íp u'áasishriheen kúnish vaa puyáv ipmahóonkoonatihara.
She laid down, she wasn't feeling good.
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[46] páy ni'áveesh.
I am going to eat that.
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[47] naa nitxâarih.
I woke up.
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[48] xás vúra uum yáv neepmahóonkoonatih.
I am feeling better.
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[49] íim hûut ipmahóonkoonatih?
How do you you feel?
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[50] íim yáv ipmahóonkoonatih.
You are feeling better.
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[51] payêem xas?
What else?
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[52] yáv ikyáati papúsihich.
You treat the cat good.
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[53] xáyfaat íkyav vaa, kâarim ikyáatih.
Don't treat her [the cat] that way, you are treating her badly.
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[54] íp poovôonfuruk uksáahtih.
When she came in the house she was laughing.
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[55] uum káru poovôonfurukati puyáv ipmahóonkoonatihara.
And when she came in she was not feeling good.
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[56] îikam paaxíitichas kunihmárathunanaatih, xás vúra vaa káan kuniksháahtih.
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.
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, 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, she finished sweeping the porch.
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[60] káru pootátuyishrihat koovúra paporch.
And she swept the whole porch.
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[61] vúra uum chêech tutátuyish.
She is sweeping it fast.
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[62] chêech tutátuyishrih paporch.
She is sweeping the porch fast.
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[63] vúra chêech tutátuyishrih paporch.
She is sweeping the porch fast.
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