Lhí:lhets’els á:lhtel te x̲pá:y

Lhí:lhets’els á:lhtel te x̲pá:y means ‘They (were) cutting cedar’.

Audio: Elizabeth Herrling

Structure

The phrase consists of these elements:

• lhí:lhets’els – woodcutting
• á:lhtel – they, them
• te – the
• x̲pá:y – cedar

Halq’eméylem requires te before the noun for ‘cedar‘, but this does not translate into English.