ew hamámts o te sth’óqwi means ‘(he) was just giving away the fish’. ‘He’ is just understood from context, as is common in the language.
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hamámt
Hamámt means ‘giving away’.
is t’wa…
Is tw’a… means ‘I guess…‘ or ‘It must be that…’.
éystexwes kw’es las lex̲éywa
Eystexwes kw’es las lex̲éywa means ‘He liked to go torchlighting’.
Os lheq’ su lám o mámt tútl’o is me t’ókw’
Os lheq’ su lám o mámt tútl’o is me t’ókw’ means ‘So he would always just go and gave them away when he got home’.
éystexw
Eystexw means ‘to like (it)’, or ‘to enjoy it’. You use it to talke about liking something specific, e.g. Tsel éystexw te slhop – ‘I like the soup’.
su lám o mámt tútl’o is me t’ókw’
Su lám o mámt tútl’o is me t’ókw’ means ‘So he just went and gave them away when he got home’.
su lám o mámt tútl’o
Su lám o mámt tútl’o means ‘So he just went and gave them away’.
mámt tútl’o
Mámt tútl’o means ‘He gave them away’.
mámt
Mámt means ‘to give away‘.