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Example 48-101
¿I ese kumina kumu fué-ba?
¿I
and
ese
this
kumina
food
kumu
how
fué-ba?
is/was-
pst
And this meal, how was it?
Comment:
Note: contrary to expectations,
fue
(< Spanish
fue
'(it) was') can be both past and present:
Kumu fue?
'How is/was it?'
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Recorded by author
Language:
Palenquero
by
Armin Schwegler
cite
Datapoints:
Suppletion according to tense and aspect: Weak suppletion according to tense only
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