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Example 47-34
mi, bo/bu, e, nos, boso, nan
mi,
1sg
bo/bu,
2sg
e,
3sg
nos,
1pl
boso,
2pl
nan
3pl
I, you, he/she/it, we, you, they
Comment:
These are the dependent personal pronouns.
Bu
is the clitic object pronoun in Curacaoan Papiamentu;
bo
is used as subject pronoun and as object of a preposition. Aruban speakers use invariant
bo
.
Type:
published source
Source:
Kouwenberg 2007
: 206
Language:
Papiamentu
by
Silvia Kouwenberg
cite
Datapoints:
Special dependent person forms for subject and object: Dependent subject and object forms
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