that boy is John’s little brother
Tl’o te sqáqs te John te swíweles means ‘that boy is John’s little brother’.
Literally it means: ‘it is the little.brother of the John, the boy’.
Vocabulary and Pronunciation
- tl’o – it is… (the tl’ sequence sounds like a popped-t followed by an l)
- te – the
- sqáq – younger sibling
- -s – here marks that a ‘third person’ (not me or you) possesses the noun. Roughly translates as English ‘of’
- swíweles – boy, young man
Audio: Elizabeth Herrling
Structure
The structure of this phrase is as follows:
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