Dictionary entry
mues-chen • adv • really, truly, true • excl • yes, truly
Lexicon record # 1969 | Source reference(s):
R226
Semantic
domain: greetings and polite expressions
Sentence examples (11)
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Mues-chen hes?
Is that true?
— Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 5: "What are you doing?" (GT3-05, 2003)
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Mues-chen, to' wee' so'n
Really, it is true. — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 5: "What are you doing?" (GT3-05, 2003)
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Mues-chen 'ne-'er'-gerp.
What I'm saying is true. — Aileen Figueroa, Sentences (JB-05-3a) (JB-05-3a, 2002)
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Mues-chen hes keech k'es-ke-wok-see-pew?
Is it true that you are fond of each other? — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-014) (LA138-014, 1980)
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Mues-chen hes k'es-ke-wok kee ko'l k'e-ne-pek'?
Do you really want to eat anything? — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (RHR) (RHR, 1951)
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Noohl 'o ne-wee' kwe-see mues-chen hlkehl wee' woop-'eek nue-mee 'o-lo-nekw.
Then they saw that it really was land lying right out in the ocean.— Florence Shaughnessy, "The Young Man from Serper" (LA16-7, 1951)
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'O ga'm, Nek kwe-lokw kom-chue-mek' mues-chen k'e-serh-ker-mery-pewk'.
She said, Well, I know that really you are homesick.— Florence Shaughnessy, "The Young Man from Serper" (LA16-7, 1951)
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Mues-chen hes ko-lo-nee k'es-ke-wok-sees-'o'?
Do you really like them?— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)
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Mues-chen hes me-wo-re-ge-te'm kue nah-che-lom cheeek?
Have you really spent all the money you were given?— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)
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Mues-chen hes ske-wok ko'l kee k'e-ne-pek'?
Do you really want something to eat?— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)
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Mues-chen hes ske-wok?
Do you really want it?— Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)