os lheq sus tl’ó kw’e…

Os lheq sus tl’ó kw’e… means ‘It was always (that)…’.

Literally it means: ‘So always so it was that…‘

Audio: Elizabeth Herrling

Vocabulary and Structure

This phrase has the following structure:

Vocabulary:

• os – a sentence connective, similar to Engish so. Sometimes osu.
• lheq – can mean always or sometimes
• su – so
• –s – here marks that there is a ‘third person’ (someone or something other than you or me) subject.
• tl’o kw’e… – it is that…