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Example 59-262
amu mafuta ti zo ni amu na lo
a-mu
pm
-take
mafuta
fat
ti
of
zo
human
ni
det
a-mu
pm
-give
na
prep
lo
3sg
He gave her (his mother-in-law) the fatty meat of a human being.
Comment:
Note that the verb
mu
means both 'take' and 'give'.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Samarin corpus 1994
Language:
Sango
by
William J. Samarin
cite
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