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’.
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.
x̲ex̲élh
X̲ex̲élh means ‘feeling hurt’, or ‘be hurting’. X̲ex̲élh is the ‘-ing‘ (‘continuative’) form of x̲élh ‘feel hurt, be hurt’.
x̲élh
X̲élh is the Halq’eméylem word for ‘to feel hurt’, ‘be hurt’.
sqwálewel
Sqwálewel means ‘thoughts’ or ‘feelings’. A literal translation would be ‘words/talk inside the mind’.
Ew xwlalámetem o tútl’o.
Ew xwlalámetem o tútl’o means ‘She just listens to him‘. Literally it means: He is just listened to.
xwlalámet
Xwlalámet means ‘to listen to’.
xwlalám
Xwlalám is the Halq’eméylem word for ‘to listen’.
Osu éwelh qwà:l the stó:les.
Osu éwelh qwà:l the stó:les. means ‘So his wife never spoke’. Literally: so never spoke the wife.of (him)
“Chxw xwe’í:t os éwelh qwelsthóx?” x̲et’e.
“Chxw xwe’í:t os éwelh qwelsthóx?” x̲et’e. means ‘”How come you never talk to me?”, he said.’ Literally: you (are) doing.what that never talk.to.me? said (he)
Chxw xwe’í:t os éwelh qwelsthóx?
Chxw xwe’í:t os éwelh qwelsthóx? means ‘How come you never talk to me?’ Literally: you (are) doing.what that never talk.to.me?
Chxw xwe’í:t?
Chxw xwe’í:t? means ‘What are you doing?‘. Literally it means: You (are) doing.what?