Sunday his house becomes white.
Osu Sx̲ax̲elhát qesu le xwá p’éq’ te lá:léms, syétl’q’tes means ‘Sunday his house becomes white’.
Literally it means ‘So Sunday and.so (it) becomes white the house (of him), (its) paint.job ‘.
Vocabulary and Pronunciation
- osu –so (this is a general sentence connector, does not always translate into English)
- Sx̲ax̲elhát –Saturday
- qesu –and so
- le – an untranslatable ‘auxiliary’ (‘helper’) verb, a reduced form of lam – to go
- xwá – to become
- p’éq’ – white
- te – the
- lá:lém – house
- syétl’q’t –paint job
- -s – here the –s and –es mean ‘of‘ (technically they mark that there is a ‘third person’ possessor) for the house, and the paint job)
Audio: Elizabeth Herrling
Structure
The structure of this phrase is as follows:
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