te swéltel la kw’e cháchu

Te swéltel la kw’e cháchu means ‘the nets at the beach’ or ‘the nets at the shore’.

Audio: Elizabeth Herrling

Vocabulary and structure

This partial sentence has the following structure:

Vocabulary:

• te – the
• swéltel – net(s) (this is not explicitly plural, but plural marking is optional and here is understood from context)
• la – at, to (you could also use li here.)
• kw’e – the (you could also say te here. kw’e indicates that it is remote from the place of speaking.
• cháchu – beach