íleqelhsthóxes te á:wkw. means ‘She bought me clothes’.
íleqelhsthóxes thútl’o…
Ileqelhsthóxes thútl’o… means ‘She bought for me…’. The base word is íleqet – to buy.
íleqelhtsthóx
Ileqelhsthóx means ‘Buy for me’. The base word is íleqet – ‘to buy’.
s’íth’em
S’íth’em means ‘dress, gown, clothing, what you wear’. You can use it for any kind of clothes, but it is especially appropriate for traditional First Nations dress and regalia.
Su xwe’í q’ólthet kw’ulh la, la hálém the kyó.
Su xwe’í q’ólthet kw’ulh la, la hálém the kyó means ‘When she got back, the train was already gone’.
te _________ -s
Instead of saying the full phrase te __________-s tútl’o, you can ‘drop’ the word tútl’o and just say te ______s.
te _______-s tútl’o
The pattern te __________-s tútl’o corresponds to English ‘his _________‘.
kapú
Kapú is the Halq’eméylem word for ‘coat‘. You can also spell this word like this: kopú.
á:wkw’
A:wkw’ means ‘clothing’. You can also use it more generally for any belongings, such as tools.
s’ehólets
S’ehólets means ‘pocket’. Literally it means ‘wrapped up on the bottom’.
íleqet
Ileqet means ‘to buy’‘. This word comes from iláq – ‘stern of a canoe,’, ‘stern man’, because traditionally it was common to travel and trade items carried in a canoe.
kw’ulh la hálém the kyó
Kw’ulh la hálém the kyó means ‘The train was already gone‘ or ‘The car was already gone’.
la hálém the kyó
La hálém te kyó means ‘The car (is) going’. Here Elizabeth is referring to a railroad car, so a fluent translation would be ‘The train is going’.
hálém
Hálém means ‘going’ or ‘to be going’.
Olsu la tés kw’e Lhq’á:lets
Olsu la tes kw’e Lhq’á:lets means ‘So I reached Vancouver’, or ‘So I got to Vancouver’.
…la tés kw’e Lhq’á:lets
…la tes kw’e Lhq’á:lets means ‘to reach Vancouver‘, or ‘…to get to Vancouver’.
tés
Tés means ‘to reach, to get to’. You can also use it for ‘to get close to, to approach’.
xwe’í q’ólthet
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
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
Qwesu la kw’átsetes thútl’o te swétel la kw’e cháchu means ‘She went and looked at the nets at the beach’.