Example 59-155

ifo ni yeke faa mama ni
ifo
necessity
ni
1sg.log
yeke
cop
faa
kill
mama
mother
ni
det
He said that he had to kill the mother.
French: Il fallait qu'il tue la mere.
Comment:
This is not an example of the conditional. COP is being used in a statement made in the past for something that would happen in the future. Ifo is borrowed from French il faut.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Samarin corpus 1994