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Example 58-158
Yandi kée mon-íka bónso yándi kée na maládi
Yandi
he/she
kée
be
mon-íka
see-?
bónso
like
yándi
he/she
kée
be
na
conn
maládi
sickness
He/She appears to be sick.
Comment:
The verb
moníka
‘appear’ is a derivative from
móna
‘see’, but I cannot tell now what the meaning of -
ík
- is. The final
–a
is otherwise the neutral/default verb ending when there is no other suffix.
Type:
constructed by native-speaker linguist
Source:
Own knowledge
Language:
Kikongo-Kituba
by
Salikoko S. Mufwene
cite
Datapoints:
Expletive subject in ‘seem’ constructions: 'There is no 'seem' construction
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