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Example 48-143
To ané a-ta gueno.
To
all
ané
they
a-ta
?-be
gueno.
good
All of them are good.
Spanish:
Todos ellos están buenos.
Comment:
Note that this same sentence could also be rendered (presumably with no difference in meaning) as follows:
To ané é gueno.
We don't know what
a
means/does here, if anything!
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Recorded by author
Language:
Palenquero
by
Armin Schwegler
cite
Datapoints:
Predicative adjectives: Invariant copula
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