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Example 63-126
mátar-á gi-wága
mátar-á
rain-
pl
gi-wága
tam
-fall
It is raining.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Heine 1982
: 79
Language:
Kinubi
by
Xavier Luffin
cite
Datapoints:
Uses of the progressive marker: Progressive, habitual, current state, and future
Tense-aspect systems: Mixed aspectual-temporal system
Raining constructions: Rain falls
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