| Part of Speech | art.constr |
| MWE Structure | art - art |
| Morphology | bene ere |
| Gloss | OBJ.ART1.SG ART1.PL |
| comment | The object article of the first class <bene>, which by itself indicates the singular, is followed by the associative article <ere>. <bene ere> is often spoken and written as a single word, i.e. <benere,>, but sometimes spoken and written as two words as illustrated by the following examples. There are 11 tokens in the corpus. |
Example 156:
A Amerika saka vaanomaa haa roho bene ere Mark Mahaka bo Simon Rigamu ae a vuu tom sinana teve, ...The Americans first did not send Mark Mahaka and Simon Rigamu with his family, ...
- Source:
- Sii Ond 01W 155
Example 867:
Evehee eori sa paku haa me roho bari en, to paku me rohori bene ere sine Morokevoan ei a kamatao.But they did not do it (their marriage ceremony) as they did with Morokevaan's mother (and her husband) - that is a kamatao. (Lit.: 'they did not do with them what they did with Morokevaan's mother')
- Source:
- Kae 01R 093-094
Example 868:
Eori repaa sue ki bene ere sinanae ve, aba noasina moon, "Eara kahi hee ri vua- a bua tom tana vai ore vavahio."They would say to the mother (and her people), the young girl's relatives, "We will give these two in marriage, let them be married."
- Source:
- Mah Loa Vaa 01R(Loa) 042
Example 869:
Tabae toro paku kiara bene ere Rigamu bo Varosi tea kikira teori te Sookara?What are we going to do for Rigamu and Varosi because of their care for Sookara?
- Source:
- Sia 01E(Joy) 205