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Os lheq sus tl’o kw’e le ew í:tet o, kw’áy kw’ses kwíyx̲thets! means ‘It’s always like they’re just sleeping, they can’t move!’

Os lheq sus tl’ó kw’e… means ‘It was always (that)…’.

Tl’o kw’e le ew í:tet o, kw’áy kw’ses kwíyx̲thets means ‘It’s like (they’re) just sleeping, (they) can’t move’.

Tl’o kw’e le ew í:tet o means ‘It’s like (they’re) just sleeping’.

Ew í:tet o means ‘(They’re) just sleeping’.

Kw’áy kw’ses kwíyx̲thets means ‘They can’t move’.

Kwíyx̲t means to move (it). You use it to talk about moving another object or another person (not yourself).

Kwíyx̲thet means ‘to move oneself’.

Tl’o kw’e hókwexexw kw’as la lex̲éywa te sth’óqwi means ‘It’s what you use when you go torchlighting’. Literally: ‘It’s what you use when you go torchlight the fish’

Tl’o kw’e hókwexexw means ‘it’s what you use’. You could also use it for ‘It’s what you wear’.