Li te Shlíxws qesu xwi tl’o te q’éyt’e yétl’q’tes te sqwóqwiyel means ‘Wednesday it’s the swing that he paints green‘.
Vocabulary and Pronunciation
- Slhíxws –Wednesday
- qesu –and so
- xwi – become, come to be (variant of xwe, xwa)
- tl’o –it is…
- te – the
- q’éyt’e – swing
- yétl’q’t – to paint
- -es – here marks that there is a third person subject (in this case the understood ‘he‘)
- sqwóqwiyel – becoming green (a variant of tsqwóqwiyel)
Audio: Elizabeth Herrling
Sentence structure
The structure of this phrase is as follows:
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