Example 39-162

Rabbit falo ki bam nɔs doy a faze race.
<Rabbit>
rabbit
fal-o
speak-pst
ki
comp
bam
hort
nɔs
1pl
doy
two
a
irr.npst
faz-e
make-inf
<race>.
race
The rabbit said: "Come, the two of us will make a race."
Comment:
In this sentence, bam is a hortative particle roughly equivalent to English let's. An alternative translation of the embedded clause could be 'Let's make a race, the two of us'. Rabbit and race are taken from English.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Cardoso 2009: 232