Bekassi da direkture a za kili mi lange gon liki mi da ron negere.
Bikasi
because
da
det.sg
driktoro
manager
a
3sg.sbj
sa
fut
kiri
kill
mi
1sg
nanga
with
gon
gun
leki
like
mi
1sg
da
cop
ron-nengre.
run-negro
Because the manager would kill me with his gun as if I were a runaway slave.
Dutch: Want hy zou myn als een Weglooper aanmerken en Dood Schieten. [op.cit.]
Comment:
This examples shows nominal predication with the copula da. This copular form cannot be preceded by a negator, TAM marker or auxiliary. It does not appear in locative predication (disregarding two ambiguous and in any case idiosyncratic instances in Weygandt 1798; see Arends 1989: 39).