la kw’e cháchu

…la kw’e cháchu means ‘at the beach’ or ‘at the shore’.

Audio: Elizabeth Herrling

Vocabulary and structure

This partial sentence has the following structure:

Vocabulary:

• la – at, to – this is a reduced form of lam – to go, but here is used to mean to or at.
• kw’e – the (you could also say te here. The use of kw’e indicates that the place is remote from the place of speaking).
• cháchu – beach