…kw’es kw’étslexwes te sth’óqwi

…kw’es kw’étslexwes te sth’óqwi is a partial phrase, meaning ‘..to see the fish’.

Audio: Elizabeth Herrling

Vocabulary and Structure

This partial phrase has the following structure:

Vocabulary:

• kw’es – generally means ‘that‘, here it translates as ‘to‘
• kw’étslexw -‘to see‘
• -es – must be added to the verb (kw’étslexw), because this type of verb requires an –es ending whenever its subject is ‘third person’ (neither me nor you). In this case, the third person subject is just understood (but not expressed) to be ‘they‘ (i.e. the ones who will see the fish). Even when not explicitly stated, third person subject still trigger the –es ending on this type of verb.
• te – ‘the’.
• sth’óqwi – ‘fish’