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Example 49-130
Mwen te konn vann liv bò lekòl la.
Mwen
1sg
te
ant
konn
hab
vann
sell
liv
book
bò
close
lekòl
school
la.
def
I used to sell books close to the school.
French:
J’avais l’habitude de vendre des livres près de l’école.
Type:
constructed by linguist
Source:
Own knowledge
Language:
Haitian Creole
by
Dominique Fattier
cite
Datapoints:
Tightness of the link between the past marker and the verb: Particle, only grammatical markers can intervene
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