Su la theq’étes álhtel.

Su la theq’étes álhtel. means ‘So (they) spear them’.

Audio: Elizabeth Herrling

Structure and Vocabulary

This phrase has the following structure:

Vocabulary:

• su – so
• la – an untranslatable ‘auxilary’ (‘helper’) verb, related to lám – to go
• thq’ét – to spear (it)
• -es – Here, marks that a ‘third person’ (neither me nor you) is the subject. The third person subject in this case is ‘they’.
• álhtel – they, them