Tl’eqtámeth’ te sqá:q.

The little brother is tall.

Tl’eqtámeth’ te sqá:q means ‘The little brother is tall’.

Vocabulary and Pronunciation

• tl’eqtámeth’ – tall
• te – the
• sqá:q – younger sibling

Audio: Elizabeth Herrling
Note: this is a normal sentence in Halq’eméylem, but the audio has been cut from a longer phrase, which slightly affects Elizabeth’s pronunciation. The full phrase will appear in the following posts.

Structure

The structure of this phrase is as follows:

Note that there is no word for ‘is‘ in Halq’eméylem.  In this sentence, as is common in the language,  tense is just understood from context.