…totí:lt ew stámes kw’ses slíw means ‘…to learn what (was) inside’
Pronunciation
Audio: Elizabeth Herrling
Structure
This phrase has the following structure:
Ew is a ‘particle’, a little word that in this case marks a kind of emphasis in the sentence. The –es endings mark the presence of (what linguists call ‘agreement with’) a ‘third person’ subject (someone who is neither you nor me).
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