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Example 59-175
to lo mu a mo nyama, mo te ape
tongana
if
lo
3sg
mu
give
na
prep
mo
2sg
nyama,
meat
mo
2sg
te
eat
ape
neg
If he gives you meat, don't eat it.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Samarin corpus 1994
Language:
Sango
by
William J. Samarin
cite
Datapoints:
The prohibitive: Normal imperative construction and normal negator
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