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Example 55-35
kaṅ zot ti revin Moris? (Zedi) — ki ler u ti sort lakaz? (Never par la)
kaṅ
when
zot
they
ti
pst
revin
come.back
Moris?
Mauritius
(Zedi)
(Thursday)
—
ki
what
ler
hour
u
2sg
ti
pst
sort
leave
lakaz?
house
(Never
(9.o'clock
par
by
la)
there)
When did they come back to Mauritius? (Thursday) — What time did you leave home? (About nine o'clock)
Comment:
/ki ler/ is generally restricted to contexts where a specific time of the day is sought.
Type:
constructed by linguist
Source:
Own knowledge
Language:
Mauritian Creole
by
Philip Baker
and
Sibylle Kriegel
cite
Datapoints:
Interrogative pronouns: Three compound expressions
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