Tl’o kw’e hókwexexw kw’as la lex̲éywa te sth’óqwi

Tl’o kw’e hókwexexw kw’as la lex̲éywa te sth’óqwi means ‘It’s what you use when you go torchlighting’.

Literally: ‘It’s what you use when you go torchlight the fish’

Audio: Elizabeth Phillips

Structure and Vocabulary

This phrase has the following structure:

• tl’o – it is
• kw’e – the, what
• hókwex – to use, to wear
• -exw – (if) you (in this type of sentence you use a reduced version of the more usual chexw)
• kw’as – that you, when you
• la – go (this is an auxiliary or helper verb, a reduced version of lam)
• lex̲éywa – to torchlight
• te – the
• sth’óqwi – fish