Olsu ew stl’í kw’els yeláwel tl’eqtámeth teli tl’útl’o means ‘I want to be taller than him’. Literally: ‘So I want that I (am) more tall than him’
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tl’íls
Tl’íls is the Halq’eméylem word for ‘to love’.
yeláwel tl’eqtámeth’ teli tl’útl’o
Yeláwel tl’eqtámeth’ teli tl’útl’o means ‘taller than him’.
tútl’o
Tútl’o means ‘he’, or ‘him’. It is a pronoun, meaning that it refers to someone in the context of the conversation.
sqwélqwel
Sqwélqwel means ‘story’, ‘message’, or ‘news’. Note: to talk about traditional legends such as stories from the Transformer period, you would use a different word: sx̲wōx̲wiyám.
qwà:l
Qwà:l is the Halq’eméylem word for ‘to speak’, or ‘to talk’. You can use it to refer to everyday talking, or talking at a formal speech.
sx̲wōx̲wiyám
Sx̲wōx̲wiyám means ‘legend’, or ‘traditional story’. You can use it especially for the stories from the Transformer period.
x̲wiyám
X̲wiyám means ‘to tell a legend’, or ‘to tell a story’ (used to talk about telling the traditional legends)
yeláwel tl’eqtámeth’
Yeláwel tl’eqtámeth’ means ‘taller’ (literally ‘more tall’, or ‘surpassingly tall’).
el stl’í kw’es híkws kw’el lá:lém
El stl’í kw’es hikws kw’el lálém means ‘I want my house to be big’. Literally: ‘My want (is) that big (is) my house’.