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Example 31-139
N bai nha kaza.
N
I
bai
go
nha
my
kaza.
house
I went home.
Comment:
No preposition necessary with this motion verb but we can use the preposition
pa
'to', as in
N bai pa kaza
'I went home'.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
2000
Language:
Cape Verdean Creole of Brava
by
Marlyse Baptista
cite
Datapoints:
Motion-to and motion-from: Differentiation
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