Yurok dictionary

Dictionary entry

tegerew • vn • talk, converse, discuss, talk with

Lexicon record # 3405 | Source reference(s): JE133 YLCB63

Other paradigm form

• iterative teeegerew AF(JB-02-11)

Special meaning or use

• to' kee kem tegerew we will talk again [greetings and polite expressions]

Sentence examples (9)

1. Nek hesee 'ne-tegerew, tergurpa' ?
   Are you talking to me?

   — Jimmie James, Sentences (LC-01-1) (LC-01-1, 2007)

2. Tene'moh skewok kee k'e-tegerew.
   They want to talk to you.

   — Jimmie James, Sentences (LC-01-1) (LC-01-1, 2007)

3. Wo' tue' skewok kee k'e-tegerew.
   He wants to talk to you.

   — Jimmie James, Sentences (LC-01-1) (LC-01-1, 2007)

4. K'e-kuechos skewok kee k'e-tegerew.
   Your grandmother wants to talk to you.

   — Georgiana Trull, Sentences (LC-01-2) (LC-01-2, 2007)

5. Ke'l 'ne-tegerew.
   I'm talking to you.

   — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 4: "Do you understand?" (GT3-04, 2003)

6. Keetee tegerew 'ne-psech.
   I'm going to talk to my father.

   — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 15: "Who Are Your Relations?" (GT3-15, 2003)

7. Keetee nue tegerew.
   I'm going to talk to him/her.

   — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 28: "Where are you going?" (GT3-28, 2003)

8. Keetee tegerew.
   I'm going to talk to him/her.

   — Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 28: "Where are you going?" (GT3-28, 2003)

9. 'Er'gerrk 'o 'we-chkeyek' weehlkwo' 'ue-megokw 'we-tegerew: Keetee knokseechek' mehlkwehl tkeeektoh.
   Then as he slept in the sweat house he dreamed that his dog spoke to him: I am going to leave you because she has punched me with a cane.

   — Robert Spott, Sentences in Spott and Kroeber's Yurok Narratives (YN, 1942)