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• 1 2018-07-24T21:38:23-07:00 12.2. ‘What?’: stáŋ 9 plain 2022-02-17T13:29:37-08:00

  stáŋ ʔay̓.	‘What is he/she/it?’
  stáŋ ʔay̓ či kʷánəŋət.	‘What runs?’

  
  ► 1  The word stáŋ means ‘what,’ and it also can mean ‘something.’
  ► 2  These models show that stáŋ is used in about the same way as cán.
  ► 3  With stáŋ it is possible, and probably more usual, to use ʔuč instead of ʔay̓. So the following are good, too:
            stáŋ ʔuč.                             ‘What is he/she/it?’
            stáŋ ʔuč či kʷánəŋət.           ‘What ran?
  ► 4  The word stáŋ can be used as a sentence by itself meaning ‘what is it?’
  ► 5  Here is some more useful vocabulary. Add these to your list of Klallam articles (remember §4): tiə  ‘this’;  təsə  ‘that’;  kʷəsə ‘that (not visible)’
  

  	stáŋ ʔuč tiə?	‘What is this?’
  	níɬ kʷi nəsʔíɬən.	‘It’s my food.’
  	stáŋ ʔay̓ cə ʔən̓sʔíɬən.	‘What is your food?’
  	níɬ kʷi nəsɬúp̓.	‘It’s my soup.’