Example 50-182

I di-mwen konmkwa i pé ké la jòd-la.
I
3sg
di-mwen
tell-1sg.obj
konmkwa
comp
i
3sg
neg.fut
fut
la
there
jòd-la.
day-det
He told me that he would not be there today.
French: Il m'a dit qu'il ne serait pas là aujourd'hui.
Comment:
The complementizer konmkwa seems to belong to elder generation registers. is a special negative particle used in combination with the future particle . This example originally appeared in Poullet et al. (1984:153).
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Ludwig 1996: 349