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Example 31-136
Tementi nu sta ku vida.
Tementi
while
nu
we
sta
are
ku
with
vida.
life
As long as we are alive.
Comment:
Note that this comitative possessive construction is an idiom and represents only a minority of cases in the language.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
nd
Language:
Cape Verdean Creole of Brava
by
Marlyse Baptista
cite
Datapoints:
Predicative possession: Comitative
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