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Example 49-115
Pa m nan pi bèl.
Pa
part
m
1sg
.
poss
nan
def
pi
more
bèl.
beautiful
Mine is more beautiful.
French:
Le mien / La mienne est plus beau/belle.
Comment:
In the North, the variant
kin
(> Fr.
(le) tien
) is used instead of
pa
. Cf.
Atlas linguistique d’Haïti
(Fattier 1998), map and comment 2007.
Se kin an mwen
'this is mine'. Important sandhi.
Type:
constructed by linguist
Source:
Own knowledge
Language:
Haitian Creole
by
Dominique Fattier
cite
Datapoints:
Independent pronominal possessors: Special word plus dependent pronominal possessor
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