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'ue

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'ue • pv • past time

Lexicon record # 4445 | Source reference(s): R272

Sentence examples (40)

  1. 'Ne-k'ep'ew 'ue negeee'n 'o kermserhl 'o teno'. Teno' 'w-ekwsek'.
    My grandson looked for a lot of mushrooms. He found a lot.

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

  2. Cho' nergeryker'm kue k'e-letkue nepuy wonew kee 'ue soone'y.
    Help your sister carry that salmon up the hill.

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

  3. Sega'anee kue 'ne-nos'ue nee'ee'geyoh kue 'ne-kergert.
    My husband and I go fishing together.

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    — Jimmie James, Elicited Sentences About Repeated Events (EJW-01-1-1, 2006)

  4. Kue 'ne-nos'ue nee'ee'geyoh.
    My husband and I are together.

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    — Jimmie James, Elicited Sentences About Repeated Events (EJW-01-1-1, 2006)

  5. 'U nee'ee'geyoh.
    We're together.

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    — Jimmie James, Elicited Sentences About Repeated Events (EJW-01-1-1, 2006)

  6. Noohl 'o kom kee 'ue-pe'l soo ten.
    Then we know it's going to rain hard.

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    — Jimmie James, Elicited Sentences About Repeated Events (EJW-01-1-1, 2006)

  7. Sega'anee 'ue-perkwperkw kue 'ne-'ekso'.
    Sometimes he knocks at the door.

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    — Jimmie James, Elicited Sentences About Repeated Events (EJW-01-1-1, 2006)

  8. Nuemee teno' 'ue-'wes.
    It's very expensive.

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    — Aileen Figueroa, Sentences (JB-005_4) (JB-005_4, 2002)

  9. Kue mehl hehlkue keech 'ue nekue' kue nepuy, noohl 'o meykwele'we'y, kolo 'o meykwele'we'y k'ee 'wes'onah.
    The salmon was taken ashore, then it cries, it looks like the sky is crying (because of that fine mist that came over everyone on that hill as they prayed).

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    — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-030) (LA138-030, 1980)

  10. Maat'p'ohl 'ue-pelepek'.
    It's not a big deal (literally, it's children fighting).

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    — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (UW-PP-18a-1) (UW-PP-18a-1, 1980)

  11. 'O neskweenepek' kee 'ue-'woo'yk' noohl hewech'.
    I don't believe s/he is going to live until morning.

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    — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (UW-PP-18a-2) (UW-PP-18a-2, 1980)

  12. [Hoore'mos hes wee' k'ee hlkeleekra'?] 'Ee, wot kem wegaayenoch' hlkeleekra'. Keech ko 'o kyegah kee chesee' so'n 'ue kee molenee sow.
    [Is the mole a hoore'mos?] Yes, mole will give warning. When he starts coming oup out of the ground, there's bad things will happen.

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    — Alice Spott, Ethnobiology (AS1, 1962 or 1963)

  13. Nek hesek' chpeewee 'ue-kwere'weyek' 'oohl 'o k'ee we'y 'ue - 'wes'onew.
    But I think you are the sharpest faced person under these heavens.

    — Glenn Moore, Retelling of Florence Shaughnessy's "The Toad and The Mouse" (GM3, 2004)

  14. Kem kee 'o kee kem 'ee keromoh ke'l (?) 'ohlkuemee kwelekw skego'oh keech mehl ma'epoyew kue 'ue-mohl.
    ... because his head was wrapped up in a cloth.

    — Florence Shaughnessy, "Driving My Father to the Doctor as a Child" (LA181-4, 1986)

  15. Chyue' kee kemeyem', to' 'ue- ma'ah wo' kee 'ue-kert.
    Let's go home and leave the fishing for the Indian devil.

    — Georgiana Trull, Jimmie James, and Josephine James, "Yurok Sentences" (CICD1, 1985)

  16. Tue' so'n keetkwo 'ue megey wee'shk'oh.
    And so it is that he still mourns today.

    — Florence Shaughnessy, "The Mourning Dove" (LA16-1, 1951)

  17. Pekw 'ue tewomehl kue perey.
    The old woman was very glad.

    — Florence Shaughnessy, "The Young Man from Serper" (LA16-7, 1951)

  18. Kem tue' negeee'no'w sega'nee noohl sohchee 'ue gek'ws.
    And he would look for it and frequently found it high up in the hills.

    — Florence Shaughnessy, "The Young Man from Serper" (LA16-7, 1951)

  19. Keetkwo mee 'ue nohpe'w ho kue nuemee 'oole'mo'w.
    He did not yet enter the main part of the house.

    — Florence Shaughnessy, "The First Salmon Rite at Wehlkwew" (LA16-8, 1951)

  20. Wo'n keech so'n keet 'ue wook kem 'o gegok'w kue 'ne-psech kue 'we-nerrgersek'.
    Before daybreak even it happened that my father went out to gather sweathouse wood.

    — Florence Shaughnessy, "The First Salmon Rite at Wehlkwew" (LA16-8, 1951)

  21. Neemee 'ue mep kego'moyok'.
    I have never heard of it.

    — Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)

  22. Sega'anee noohl sohchee 'ue gek'ws.
    Often he found it far up in the hills.

    — Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)

  23. Kwelokw keech 'ue nuue'm.
    Well, they have come.

    — Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)

  24. Keetkwo mee 'ue hewechek'.
    I am not well yet.

    — Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)

  25. Keetkwo mee' ko'l 'ue so'n kue ke'l tmooloomom pegerk.
    The man you shot has not died yet.

    — Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)

  26. Chmeyaan keetkwo mee 'ue nes.
    He had not come back by yesterday.

    — Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)

  27. Keetkwo mee 'ue 'ok'ws 'w-ahpew.
    He is not married yet.

    — Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)

  28. Keetkwo mee nuemee 'ue ho'ohko'hl.
    It is not yet quite dark.

    — Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)

  29. Cho 'ue neee'n!
    Go and look!

    — Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)

  30. Neemee 'ue nuue'm.
    They have not arrived.

    — Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)

  31. Neemee 'ue mep kego'moyok' wee'eeet 'we-sook.
    I have never heard anything like it.

    — Various speakers, Sentences in R. H. Robins's Yurok Language (YL, 1951)

  32. Kwesee...kyaanewks.. huueksoh keetee ho myah mewahsew nee kaap' 'ue negoono.

    — Robert Spott, No'och (RS1, 1933)

  33. Kwesee weetee' ro'opek' 'ue-wer'yers keech kwesee 'uegaayoh... srokseeyoh, kem 'ue kwermhlr... no'omor.

    — Robert Spott, No'och (RS1, 1933)

  34. So'n 'ekw, keech neemok'w 'we-tewon, 'ohlkuemee weeshtue' keech 'ue me'womechkok'w.
    That is just how he was, he now had no flesh, because he had become sick from that.

    — Domingo of Weitchpec, "Buzzard's Medicine" (I4, 1907)

  35. Kwesee kem neemee wo 'ue w-ek'ws 'o wonoye'eek.
    But he didn't find it in the sky.

    — Pecwan Jim, "Upriver Coyote" (T8, 1907)

  36. Tue' nue ko muehlso'm 'ue-meykwelek'.
    He wiped his tears.

    — Domingo of Weitchpec, "Turip Young Man and His Dogs" (dictated version) (I1, 1906)

  37. Noohl 'o nookwomey 'ue-puuekteek, noohl neekee monoyek'.
    Then he gathered the deer (skins), he took them along.

    — Domingo of Weitchpec, "Turip Young Man and His Dogs" (dictated version) (I1, 1906)

  38. Tue' kee weeshtue 'ue-weykoyek'.
    That's how he accomplished it.

    — Domingo of Weitchpec, "Turip Young Man and His Dogs" (dictated version) (I1, 1906)

  39. Skuewege'hl 'ue-kechoyn we'y.
    It is good weather today.

    — Anonymous, Sentences (JC) (JC, 1889)