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Li te Shlíxws qesu xwi tl’o te q’éyt’e yétl’q’tes te sqwóqwiyel

Illustration for 'Wednesday it's the swing that he paints green'

Wednesday it’s the swing that he paints green.

Li te Shlíxws qesu xwi tl’o te q’éyt’e yétl’q’tes te sqwóqwiyel means ‘Wednesday it’s the swing that he paints green‘.


Vocabulary and Pronunciation

  • Slhíxws Wednesday
  • qesuand so
  • xwibecome, come to be (variant of xwe, xwa)
  • tl’oit is…
  • tethe
  • q’éyt’eswing
  • yétl’q’t to paint
  • -es – here marks that there is a third person subject (in this case the understood ‘he‘)
  • sqwóqwiyelbecoming green (a variant of tsqwóqwiyel)


Audio: Elizabeth Herrling


Sentence structure

The structure of this phrase is as follows:

Wednesday-its-the-swing-structure

 


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