Mekw’stám te ileqelhtsthóxes means ‘She bought me EVERYTHING!’. Literally it is ‘What she bought me was everything’ (in the language this word order indicates emphasis).
Audio: Elizabeth Herrling
This phrase has the following structure:
- mekw’stám – everything
- te – the
- ileqelhtsthóx – buy for me
Note that ‘the thing that‘ and ‘she‘ are both just understood from context. The –es ending indicates the presence of a third person subject (the understood ‘she‘)
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