Example 29-169

Leah het Marie by die gat uit getrek.
Leah
Leah
het
pst
Marie
Mary
by
by
die
the
gat
hole
uit
out
ge-trek.
ptcp-pulled
Leah pulled Mary out of the hole.
Comment:
Like the motion-to construction, this by [...] uit form is more common in colloquial Afrikaans than the circumpositional structure featuring identical adpositional elements (uit [...] uit).
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Own knowledge