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Example 49-327
Tout moun pral nan sinema, mwen menm
tou
m ap soti.
Tout
every
moun
person
pral
go
nan
to
sinema,
cinema
mwen
I
menm
self
tou
too
m
1sg
ap
inacc
soti.
go.out
Everyone is going to the movie theatre, I will go out, too.
French:
Tout le monde va au cinéma, moi aussi je vais sortir.
Comment:
The particle
pral
refers to the definite future ("futur certain"). Cf.
Atlas linguistique d’Haïti
(Fattier 1998: 268, volume 6, map 2176).
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Fattier 1998
: 949
Language:
Haitian Creole
by
Dominique Fattier
cite
Datapoints:
Focus particle ‘also’: After the focused element
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