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Example 41-81
etus gɛɛra jaabuskaa. mataa, kortaa taam tiña tudus.
etus
3pl
gèèra
war
jaa-buskaa.
pst
-seek
mataa,
kill
kortaa
cut
taam
prog
tiña
pst
.be
tudus.
everyone
They made war. They were all killing and cutting [each other].
Comment:
This illustrates the past progressive.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Smith 1974-5
: 3228
Language:
Sri Lanka Portuguese
by
Ian R. Smith
cite
Datapoints:
Tense-aspect systems: Mixed aspectual-temporal system
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