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Example 65-19
Тибе сасему худа, сибыка бу хао.
Tibe sasemu xuda,
sybika
bu xao.
Tibe
2sg
sasemu
totally
xuda,
bad
sybika
very
bu
neg
xao.
good
You are absolutely useless, you are completely bad.
Comment:
The example is taken from the archives of A. Shprintsyn.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Perekhvalskaya 2008
: 222
Language:
Chinese Pidgin Russian
by
Elena Perekhvalskaya
cite
Datapoints:
Order of degree word and adjective: Degree word precedes adjective
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