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Example 30-105
N
ta
ser grándi un dia.
N=ta=ser
1sg
=
ipfv
=be
grándi
grown.up
un=dia.
art
.
indf
=day
One day I will have grown up.
German:
Eines Tages werde ich groß sein.
Comment:
Here
ta
marks the imperfective with a future function.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Veiga 1982
: 125
Language:
Cape Verdean Creole of Santiago
by
Jürgen Lang
cite
Datapoints:
Uses of the habitual marker: Habitual, current state, and future
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