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Example 1-198
Jesus komm bakka
va
riba Jordan.
Yesus
Jesus
kon
come
baka
back
fu
from
riba
river
Yordan.
Jordan
Jesus came back from the river Jordan.
Comment:
Here the verb
komm/kon
, 'come' plus
baka
'back' expresses 'return'; the preposition
va/fu
expresses 'from' in this case. This is exceptional and restricted to a few such cases in Schumann (1781).
Type:
written
Source:
Schumann 1781
: 29
Language:
Early Sranan
by
Margot C. van den Berg
and
Adrienne Bruyn
cite
Datapoints:
Coming from named places: Preposition
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