Le xwá ts’méth’ means ‘it becomes blue’
Vocabulary and Pronunciation
- le – this word does not translate directly into English, but is a reduced form of lam – go (le is pronounced LUH)
- xwá – to become (sounds like HWA, except instead of an H you say the Halq’eméylem soft-x, here with rounded lips, i.e. xw)
- ts’méth’ – blue
Audio: Elizabeth Herrling
Structure
This phrase has the following structure:
Though le is related to lam (‘to go‘), you don’t have to directly translate le into English. Linguists usually just translate it as AUX (short for an ‘auxiliary’, which is a helper verb before the main verb).
Note that there is no equivalent of it in this sentence. It is just understood from the context.
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