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Xweí’ q’ólthet means ‘to return’‘ or ‘to come back’. It is roughly the same as me q’ólthet, but uses a different auxiliary (‘helper’) verb.

Lhq’á:lets is the Halq’eméylem name for ‘Vancouver‘. Literally it means ‘widening at the bottom‘, referring to the Fraser river delta.

Qwesu la kw’átsetes thútl’o te swétel la kw’e cháchu means ‘She went and looked at the nets at the beach’. 

La kw’átsetes thútl’o… means ‘She went and looked…’.

Kw’átset means ‘to look at’.

Te swéltel la kw’e cháchu means ‘the nets at the beach’ or ‘the nets at the shore’.

…la kw’e cháchu means ‘at the beach’ or ‘at the shore’.

  Cháchu means ‘beach’. You can also use it for any type of shore, such as the shore of a river.

Osu éwe, ewesthóxes means ‘(She) said no, no to me’.

Ewesthóx means ‘to to say no to me‘. You can also translate it as ‘to deny me‘, or ‘to refuse me’.