o bi dat ani wɛtɛ kɛna bin kumtɛ fan ɛk ni waŋʃi ka
o
3sg
bi
say
dati
comp
andri
other
wɛtɛ
white
kɛnɛ-apu
peron-pl
bin
tns
kumu-tɛ
come-prf
fan
from
ɛkɛ
1sg
nimi
know
wanga-ʃi
where-side
ka
neg
He said that some white people had come from I don't know where.
Comment:
Note that Anterior is normally marked in Berbice Dutch by a combination of preverbal wa, which marks simple past, and the suffixed perfective marker. Here, preverbal bin, which was borrowed from Creolese, is used instead. Although bin is an Anterior Tense marker in Creolese, it is used here in the same manner as Berbice Dutch wa, i.e. in combination with the perfective suffix. I have glossed it as TNS (Tense).