le xwá ts’méth’ te yétl’q’tes te lá:léms

His house becomes blue.

Le xwá ts’méth’ te yétl’q’tes te lá:léms means ‘His house becomes blue‘.

Literally it means ‘(It) becomes blue the paint-job of the house (of him)‘.

Vocabulary and Pronunciation

• le – an untranslatable ‘auxiliary’ (‘helper’) verb, a reduced form of lam – to go
• xwá – to become
• ts’méth’ – blue
• te – the
• yétl’q’t – paint job (This appears to be the same word as syétl’q’t, without the s-.  The s-, a noun marker, is often variable in use. It could also be a slightly different form of the word.)
• -s – of
• lá:lém – house
• -s – here the –s means ‘of‘, indicating that the house is possessed by understood ‘he‘

Audio: Elizabeth Herrling

Structure

The structure of this phrase is as follows:

Note that  ‘his‘ is not overtly expressed—you understand  from it context.