the little brother’s car
Te kyós te sqáq means ‘the little brother’s car’.
Literally: ‘the car of the younger sibling’.
Vocabulary and pronunciation
- te – the.
- kyó – car
- -s – you use this to mark that a third person (not me or you) possesses the object
- sqáq – younger sibling (can be brother or sister, depending on context)
Audio: Elizabeth Herrling
Note: this audio has been cut from a larger phrase, and partly edited. See later posts for the full audio for this section.
Structure and Related Examples
The structure of this phrase is as follows:
The structure is very similar to these phrases:
- te lá:léms tl’ John – John’s house
- te sqwemá:ys te swíyeqe – the man’s dog
One thing to watch out for: note that you use tl’ before proper names (like ‘John‘), but te before regular nouns (like ‘man‘).
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