me chémetes á:lhtel mi te stl’ép means ‘they pack it down‘ or ‘they carry it to the bottom’.
Audio: Elizabeth Herrling
Vocabulary and Structure
This phrase has the following structure:
Vocabulary:
- me – this is an untranslatable ‘auxiliary’ (‘helper’) verb, that indicates that the action takes place coming towards the place of speaking. It is related to emí – ‘to come‘.
- chémet – ‘to pack on back, carry on back’
- -es – this ending marks that the verb has a ‘third person’ subject (in this case á:lhtel – ‘they‘). A ‘third person’ is someone other than the speaker or hearer. This –es ending is required on certain verbs, when they have third person subjects.
- á:lhtel – they, them
- te – the
- stl’ép – depth, bottom
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