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Kwà:lx means ‘to hide (it)’. You use this form to talk about hiding an object. This is the ‘transitive’ (object directed)  form of kwà:l – ‘to hide oneself’.

Kwà:l means ‘to hide oneself, to hide yourself’.

Kwútes te mimele’ó:ylha means ‘(He) took the doll’.

Sétl’atel means ‘big sibling‘. You can use it for males or females, so it can translate as either ‘big brother‘ or ‘big sister‘, depending on the context.

Xwelált means ‘become evening, get dark’.

Sepsáp thel sétl’atel means ‘My big brother was stubborn/headstrong’.

Sepsáp means ‘stubborn, headstrong, bullheaded‘.

Híkw! Yeláwel híkw teli tl’á’elthe! means ‘It was big, bigger than me!’.