Example 54-215

An se tan la, lékol lavé poin tro.
An
in
së
dem
tan
time
la,
dem
lekol
school
lave
have.pst
pwen
neg
tro.
too.many
In those days, there were not too many schools.
French: À cette époque-là, il n'y avait pas trop d'écoles.
Comment:
The negator point (> Reunion Creole pwen), marked as "archaïque, littéraire ou régional" in Petit Robert, is still used in Canadian French.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Barat et al. 1977: 56