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Schechewót te John te lámes há:we.

John is skilled at hunting.

John is skilled at hunting.

Schechewót te John te lámes há:we means’John is skilled at hunting’.

A literal translation would be ‘John is smart/skilled if/when he goes hunting’.


Vocabulary and Pronunciation

schechewótsmart, skilled  –  This is a variant of schewót.
lámes há:weif/when he goes hunting
háweto hunt


Audio: Elizabeth Herrling


Structure notes

The structure of this phrase is as follows:

john-is-skilled-at-hunting-structure

  • The -es ending in this case indicates that ‘he‘ (or ‘she‘ or ‘it‘) is doing the action.
  • Speakers use -es for ‘he‘ (or ‘she‘ or ‘it‘) to talk about possibilities or ‘when’, so you can translate it as ‘if when he…
  • The second te in this sentence is not translatable into English. Literally it means the, but here it is used more like ‘if/that’.

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