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Example 29-162
My ma het van/uit Kaapstad terug gekom/gekeer.
My
1sg
.
poss
ma
mother
het
pst
van/uit
from/out
Kaapstad
Cape.Town
terug
back
ge-kom/ge-keer.
ptcp
-come/
ptcp
-returned
My mother came back from Cape Town.
Comment:
Prepositional
uit
('out') is more formal than
van
and thus goes most naturally with higher register verbs like
terugkeer
('return').
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Own knowledge
Language:
Afrikaans
by
Hans den Besten
and
Theresa Biberauer
cite
Datapoints:
Coming from named places: Preposition
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