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Example 54-192
[...] bin
ou mem
alé rodé alor!
[...]
[...]
ben
well
ou-menm
your-self
ale
go
rode
look
alor!
then
[...] well, go and look (for it) yourself then!
French:
[...] eh bien, va en chercher toi-même alors!
Comment:
Here
ou-menm
functions as intensifier. Context: The husband was unable to find water without frogs for his pregnant wife, so he asks her to look for it herself.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Barat et al. 1977
: 13
Language:
Reunion Creole
by
Annegret Bollée
cite
Datapoints:
Intensifiers and reflexive pronouns: Intensifiers and reflexives are identical
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