Su la kw’íystexwes lam kw’e chíchelh te lá:lém

Su la kw’íystexwes lam kw’e chíchelh te lá:lém means ‘(He) took (it) to the attic’.

Audio: Elizabeth Herrling

This phrase has the following structure:

Vocabulary:

• su – so
• la – an untranslatable ‘auxilary’ (‘helper’) verb, related to the meaning ‘go’
• kw’íystexw – to take up
• -es – here, marks the presence of a ‘third person’ subject (i.e. a subject who is neither you nor me); in this case, the third person subject is the understood ‘he’
• lam -usually means go, but here the best translation would be to
• kw’e – the (used for remote places)
• -s – roughly of (marks possession)
• te – the
• lá:lém – house
  

  house

• chíchelh – top, upper part, above