Olsu stl’í kw’es yeláwels x̲wém kw’el kyó means ‘I want my car to be faster’. Literally it means: ‘So my want (is) that more fast (is) my car’.
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…kw’es yeláwels x̲wém kw’el kyó
…kw’es yeláwels x̲wém kw’el kyó means ‘…that my car is faster’. Literally it means: ‘…that more fast (is) my car’.
Yeláwel x̲wém kw’el kyó
Yeláwel x̲wém kw’el kyó means ‘My car is faster’. Literally it means: ‘More fast (is) my car’.
X̲wém kw’el kyó
X̲wém kw’el kyó means ‘My car is fast’. Literally it means: ‘Fast (is) my car’.
x̲wém
X̲wém in Halq’eméylem means ‘fast’ and also ‘to hurry’. Note: there is another unrelated word, stím, which also means ‘fast’.
El stl’li kw’els yeláwel éy kw’e lamál há:we, x̲ét’e tútl’o
El stl’li kw’els yeláwel éy kw’e lamál há:we, x̲ét’e tútl’o means ‘He said “I want to be better when I go hunting”‘. A literal translation would be: ‘My want (is) that-I (am) more good when go-I hunting, said he’.
x̲ét’e
X̲ét’e is the Halq’eméylem word for ‘to say’. Note: Elders use this word interchangeably with another word, thét, which also means ‘to say’.
El stl’li kw’els yeláwel éy kw’e lamál há:we
El stl’li kw’els yeláwel éy kw’e lamál há:we means ‘I want to be better when I go hunting’. A literal translation would be: ‘My want (is) that-I (am) more good when go-I hunting’.
…kw’els yeláwel éy kw’e lamál há:we
…kw’els yeláwel éy kw’e lamál há:we means ‘…that I am better when I go hunting’. A literal translation would be ‘…that-I (am) more good when go-I hunting’.
…kw’e lamál há:we
…kw’e lamál há:we means ‘…when I go hunting’.