éystexwes kw’es las lex̲éywa

Eystexwes kw’es las lex̲éywa means ‘He liked to go torchlighting’.

Audio: Elizabeth Herrling

Structure and Vocabulary

The structure of this phrase is as follows:

• éystexw – to like, to enjoy
• -es – here, marks that a ‘third person’ (the understood subject ‘he’) is the subject.
• kw’es – that, to
• la – an auxiliary (‘helper’) verb, a reduced form of lá<m/strong> –to go
• -s – here, again a form of third person subject agreemtnt
• lex̲éywa – to torchlight