su lám o mámt tútl’o is me t’ókw’

Su lám o mámt tútl’o is me t’ókw’ means ‘So he just went and gave them away when he got home’.

Audio: Elizabeth Herrling

Structure and Vocabulary

The structure of this phrase is as follows:

• su…o – so just (from su – so combined with ew…o – just)
• lám – go
• mámt – ‘to give away’
• tútl’o – he, him
• i – an untranslatable ‘auxiliary’, related to the meaning ‘here‘. In this case it means something like ‘when‘.
• -s – marks that a third person subject is present (in this case, an understood ‘he‘ in ‘he comes home‘)
• me – come (an auxiliary ‘helper’ verb)
• t’ókw’ – to travel home