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qantc place, where. 



qantc lEla^ laa' yam, la^ his xd tcl la wherever they went, he also 



there went 22.17, 18 

 T^Jcwaafnlya qantc I know where (it is) 80.14 

 go'^s qantc everywhere 46.22 

 m qantc h'i'LoHs nowhere he found it 



tnt'ldtc TIME. It is used mostly in connection with the numerical 

 particle go'^s, and is then rendered by always. 



go'^s mi'ldtc Lid'xEm alwaj^i^ he is talking 14.5, 6 

 mi'ldtcu haiiL e^wu'txe when will you return? (literally, time, 

 question, shall, you come back) 28.3, 4 



te%tC MANNER, KIND, WAT, MODE (seC alsO p. 390). 



gol^s tcltc il aWcanl all kinds of (games) they are playing 30.25 

 tcltc he Lowe^'wat whatever he is eating (habitually) 

 il In tcltc tsxau'ioat they can not kill her (literally, they [have] 

 no way [to] kill her) 80.24 



a'watu WHETHER OR NOT. This particle is very rarely used. 



afwatu iQ^djl I may or may not come 



a'watu m tsi'x'tl he'laq (they) may or may not come here 90.15 



§ 113. The Stem Jtse'ts 



Morphologically speaking, it is a verbal stem Its-, transitivized by 

 means of the suffix -ts, but its application covers such a wide range 

 of different ideas that each of them will have to be enumerated 

 separately. 



(1) It is used as an expletive particle with a significance that adapts 

 itself to the sense of the sentence. 



In kwee'nlyem Itse'ts he'U naP-'ntES no one knew how many they 

 were (literally, they [indefinite] not know it, lohat [was] their 

 number) 78.2 



yEai' Litd'ltc tiltse'ts in another country I stay 26.8, 9 



xtcl'tcu itse'ts hs no'^sh'i'll what is the matter with the Big Woman 

 72.28 



Itse'ts yi'h^ il la^ henl'yeEs hinl' Lowa'kats he may have been sit- 

 ting there for a long time 40.14 



Jcwad'nlya xtdtc hanh Ie Usem he knew what was going to happen 

 (the -em in itsem is the indefinite subject suffix [§ 30]) 26.19, 20 



ux In kwad'nlya qantc ha^ Usem they two did not know where he 

 was 22.9, 10 



en hauL tcltc Usem to you nothing will /happen 66.5 



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