Li tetha kw’es sta tset.

Li tetha kw’es stá tset means ‘That’s where we were living’. You could also translate it as ‘That’s where we were staying’.

Audio: Elizabeth Herrling

This phrase has the following structure:

• li – This word has a variety of uses in the language, here it is being used as a preposition similar to at
• tetha – there
• kw’es – that
• stá – to live, to stay (at a place)
• tset – we (Elizabeth pronounces this like TSH-utt. You can also say it like this: TSS-utt.)

Note: there is no word for ‘were‘, this is just understood from the context.