ew lhíxw o te sxélche

Ew lhíxw o te sxélche means ‘the catch is just three‘.

Audio: Elizabeth Herrling

Structure and Vocabulary

This phrase has the following structure:

• ew…o – just (both words can be used by themselves as ways of marking emphasis, but together they mean just)
• lhíxw – three
  

  three

• te – the
• sxélche (also pronounced sxélcha) – catch, what one catches (use this for talking about game or fish that you catch)
  

  hunting catch, what you caught