Osu xwe’í:lsthóxwes the xwelítem slhá:lí

Osu xwe’í:lsthoxwes the xwelítem slhá:lí means ‘So a white lady came to us/visited us’.

Audio: Elizabeth Herrling

This phrase has the following structure:

• osu – This word is a general sentence connector. Often untranslatable, here it means roughly so
• xwe’í:lsthóxw – visited/came to us (also brought it to us).

• -es – here, the –es ending marks the presence of a third person subject, that is someone other than you or me. The third person subject in this case is [the xwelítem slhá:lí]
• the – can mean a or the (the langauge does not distinguish these)
• xwelítem – white person
  

  woman

• slhá:lí – woman, lady

woman