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Example 49-317
Ou tande? Ou gen lè pa konprann!
Ou
2sg
tande?
understand
Ou
2sg
gen
have
lè
look
pa
neg
konprann!
understand
Do you understand? You don't seem to understand!
French:
Tu entends? Tu sembles ne pas comprendre!
Comment:
Cf.
Atlas linguistique d’Haïti
(Fattier 1998), volume 6, map 2134, point 19 (page 224).
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Fattier 2005
: 42
Language:
Haitian Creole
by
Dominique Fattier
cite
Datapoints:
Polar questions: Only interrogative intonation
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