Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures Online

Example 48-142

Comment:

Note that fue can have both present and past mean (fue is derived from Spanish fue 'he/she/it was'. As Patiño Rosselli (1983) correctly states, no semantic difference is perceived between fue and e (< Spanish es 'he/she/it is').

Type:

naturalistic spoken

Source:

Recorded by author