…il totí:lt

…that I was thinking of

…il totí:lt is a partial sentence, meaning ‘…that I was thinking of’.

Pronunciation

• i – this has no direct translation into English, this is a ‘helper’ verb (what linguists call an ‘auxiliary’ verb), whose function appears to be just to hold the ending listed in the next item
• -l – in this context, the –l ending means I. There are other words for I, but this –l ending is what you use in this particular structure
• totí:lt – thinking of

Audio: Elizabeth Herrling

Structure

The structure of this phrase is as follows:

As noted above, the ‘auxilary’ verb i does not have any clear meaning, but functions to hold the ending –l, which in this structure is how you say ‘I‘.