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Instead of saying the full phrase te __________-s tútl’o, you can ‘drop’ the word tútl’o and just say te ______s

The person who possesses the noun will then just be understood from context, so te ______-s can mean either ‘his ____‘ or ‘her _____‘, depending on who your have been talking about. For example, you can say:

  • te lá:lemshis/her house
  • te méles his child
  • te sqwemá:ys his dog

To be clear you can always add the tútl’o (or thútl’o, for ‘her‘), but in context Elders commonly just use the shorter pattern.


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