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And, and then, but. iwača xʷɨ́saat ku łmáma ‘there was an old man and an old woman’; kúuš míimi iwačá ku čikúuk iwá túnx̣ ‘thusly it was long ago but today it is different’; ana kú iwiyánawiya ku paq̓ínuna paanáy ‘when he arrived they saw him’; kúuštašta kú wiyánawiya ‘thusly then we arrived’; nápt ku nápt iwá pínapt ‘two plus two equals four’; náaptit ku náx̣š ‘twenty one’; ača kú ‘because’; ana kú ‘when’; aw kú ‘then’; míš ku amúu ‘certainly!’. [NP kaa /kaa/; wax̣ /waq/ (usually between nominals).]