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Example 31-133
Nos tera e mariadu.
Nos
our
tera
country
e
is
mariadu.
problematic
Our country is full of problems.
Comment:
E
is used for permanent properties whereas
sta
is used for temporary qualities. However, I found in my corpus examples such as
Pedru e duenti
'Peter is sick' where the sickness can conceivably be viewed as temporary.
Type:
constructed by linguist
Source:
nd
Language:
Cape Verdean Creole of Brava
by
Marlyse Baptista
cite
Datapoints:
Predicative adjectives: Invariant copula
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