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Example 58-111
Yandi mene kwenda yandi mosi.
Yandi
he/she
mene
prf
kwenda
go
yandi
he/she
mosi.
one
He/She left alone. OR: He/She himself/herself left.
Comment:
In a more emphatic construction, one may say
Si yandi mosi (yandi) me kwenda
‘It's he/she indeed who left.’
Type:
constructed by native-speaker linguist
Source:
Own knowledge
Language:
Kikongo-Kituba
by
Salikoko S. Mufwene
cite
Datapoints:
Intensifiers and reflexive pronouns: Intensifiers and reflexives are identical
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