Lachexw xwehíwel… means ‘You go upriver…’.
Audio: Elizabeth Herrling
Vocabulary and Structure
This phrase has the following structure:
Vocabulary:
- la – this is an untranslatable ‘auxiliary’ (‘helper’ verb). You use it with verbs of motion away from the place of speaking (it is probably a reduced form of lám– to go).
- chexw – you (speakers normally drop the vowel in fast speech, so it sounds like chxw).
- xwehíwel – to go upriver, to go upstream
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