Example 29-188

die mes wat hy die brood mee gesny het
die
def.art
mes
knife
wat
rel
hy
3sg.m
die
the
brood
bread
__
__
mee
with
gesny
cut
het
pst
the knife he cut the bread with
Comment:
Colloquial Afrikaans thus permits adposition stranding. Strikingly, though, the stranded adposition always take the form found in R-pronoun structures (met die mes/wat vs. waarmee - 'with the knife/which vs. where-with').
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Own knowledge