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ew lhíxw o te sxélches

Illustration for 'his catch is just three'

Ew lhíxw o te sxélches means ‘his catch is just three’.



Audio: Elizabeth Herrling


Structure and Vocabulary

This phrase has the following structure:

Illustration showing structure for 'his catch is just three'

  • ew…ojust (both words can be used by themselves as ways of marking emphasis, but together they mean just)
  • lhíxwthree

    illustration for lhíxw ('three')

    three

  • tethe
  • sxélche (also pronounced sxélcha) – catch, what one catches (use this for talking about game or fish that you catch)

    hunting catch, what you caught

    hunting catch, what you caught

  • -s – here, marks the presence of a possessor who is ‘third person’ (neither you nor me). In this case, the third person possessor is an understood ‘his‘.

Note that there is no explicit word for ‘his‘ in this sentence:  the possessor is just understood from context, as is common in the language. In other contexts, the same sentence could be understood to mean ‘her‘, or ‘their‘ catch.


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