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Example 56-164
[...] be dizef ti a vann en sou enn.
[...]
[...]
be
well
dizef
egg
ti
pst
a
fut
vann
sell
en
one
sou
sou
enn.
each
[...] well, the eggs would sell one sou each / would be sold for one sou each.
French:
[...] les œufs se vendraient à un sou pièce. (Bollée & Rosalie 1994: 205)
Comment:
Sou
is roughly equivalent to
penny
.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Bollée and Rosalie 1994
: 204
Language:
Seychelles Creole
by
Susanne Maria Michaelis
and
Marcel Rosalie
cite
Datapoints:
Passive constructions: Passive without verbal coding
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