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Yeláwel híkw te lá:léms te sqá:q.

Illustration for "The little brother's house is bigger."

The little brother’s house is bigger.

Yeláwel híkw te lá:léms te sqá:q means ‘The little brother’s house is bigger.’ (literally ‘More big (is) the house of the little brother’).


Vocabulary and Pronunciation

This phrase combines:


Audio: Elizabeth Herrling
Note: this is a normal sentence in Halq’eméylem, but the audio has been cut from a longer phrase, which slightly affects Elizabeth’s pronunciation.


Structure

The structure of this phrase is as follows:

the-little-brothers-house-is-bigger-structure

Note that there is no word for ‘is‘.


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