Tl’o te sqáqs te John te swíweles means ‘that boy is John’s little brother’. Literally it means: ‘it is the little.brother of the John, the boy’.
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swíweles
Swíweles is one of the Halq’eméylem words for ‘boy’. You can also use it for ‘young man’. You use swíweles for older boys, from roughly the age of ten into teenager years.
tl’o te sqáqs te John
Tl’o te sqáqs te John means ‘it’s John’s little brother’
tl’o ta’ sqáq
tl’o ta’ sqáq means ‘it’s your little brother’
tl’o te sqáq
tl’o te sqáq means ‘it’s the little brother’
Su thét thútl’o: “X̲élh kw’el sqwálewel”, x̲ét’e.
Su thét thútl’o: “X̲élh kw’el sqwálewel”, x̲ét’e means ‘She said: “I’m sorry”‘.
thútl’o
Thútl’o means ‘she‘, or ‘her‘. (Compare tútl’o – ‘he, him‘.)
thét
Thét means ‘to say’ in Halq’eméylem. Note: elders use thét interchangeably with another word, x̲ét’e, which also means ‘to say’.
“X̲élh kw’el sqwálewel,” x̲ét’e.
“X̲élh kw’el sqwálewel,” x̲ét’e means ‘”I’m sorry”, she says’. Literally it means ‘My thoughts/feelings hurt, says (she)’.
x̲élh kw’el sqwálewel
X̲élh kw’el sqwálewel means ‘I’m sorry‘, or ‘I feel sad‘. Literally it means My thoughts/feelings hurt. You can also say this phrase like this: X̲élh tel sqwálewel.