Osu la te Slhq’átses qesu wxi tl‘ó te letám yétl’q’tes sqwówiyel

Friday it’s his table that he paints green.

Osu la te Slhq’átses qesu wxi tl‘ó te letám yétl’q’tes sqwówiyel means ‘Friday it’s his table that he paints green’.

Literally it means ‘So Friday it comes to be it is the table (he) paints green’.


Audio: Elizabeth Herrling

Vocabulary and Structure

The –es ending on yétl’q’t is required because the subject (here, an understood ‘he‘) is a ‘third person’ (i.e. someone other than you or me). See below for more information on vocabulary items:

• Slhq’átses –Friday
• letám –table
• yétl’q’t – to paint
• sqwóqwiyel – (become) green, variant of tsqwóqwiyel