Ileqelhtsthóxes te á:wk’w, me qwelhí:xel qas tel s’íth’em kapú

Ileqelhtsthóxes te á:wk’w, me qwelhí:xel qas tel s’íth’em
kapú.qwelhí:xel qas tel s’íth’em kapú means ‘She bought me clothes, including shoes and a dress-coat’.

Audio: Elizabeth Herrling

This phrase has the following structure:

• íleqet – to buy
• -elhtst – a verb ending which gives the meaning for
• óx – me
• á:wkw’ – clothes, belongings
• me – an untranslatable auxilary (‘helpr’) verb, related to the meaning come
• qwelhí:xel – shoe, shoes
• qas – and
• tel – my
• s’íth’em – dress, gown
• kapú – coat

Note that there is no word that literally means ‘including’, the only connector word is the auxiliary me (related to the meaning ‘come’).