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Example 30-161
Pamodi ki bu sta tristi?
Pamodi
why
ki=bu=sta
comp
=
2sg
=be
tristi?
sad
Why are you sad?
German:
Warum bist du traurig?
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
da Silva 1987
: 41
Language:
Cape Verdean Creole of Santiago
by
Jürgen Lang
cite
Datapoints:
Predicative adjectives: Invariant copula
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