Datapoint Zamboanga Chabacano/Coming from named places

Actually, there is no special preposition form for named places. The suppletive past form of está 'dwell, be' estába together with na has also the prepositional meaning 'from' (cf. Example 154).

Values

Preposition

Example 46-153:
Ya-birá 'le na Zamboanga.
Ya-birá
prf-turn
'le
s/he
na
loc
Zamboanga.
Zamboanga
S/he returned from Zamboanga. OR: S/he has returned from Zamboanga.
Example 46-154:
estába na Manila para na Macau
estába
was
na
loc
Manila
Manila
para
to
na
loc
Macau
Macau
from Manila to Macau
Confidence:
Very certain