havee to paa paku vo what did someone do?

• • what did someone do?
  • • questions

  Comment

  The preposition <vo> 'like' takes an adverb, adverb construction. prepositional phrase or the relative pronoun <to> as its complement, which translates as a direct object in the combination with <paku> 'do'. Literally <havee to paa paku vo> could be translated by 'what (is it) that ... did?'

  • • Example 1941:
      

      Keara tenaa, havee to paa paku vo vuan?

      My brother, what have you done?

      Source: Mom 01R 057

    • Example 1942:
      

      Havee to paa paku vo mau a beiko tenaa meve paa nomau?

      What's the matter with my child that he's coming along? (lit. How has my child done and he has just come?)

      Source: Nan 03R 135

    • Example 1943:
      

      Havee to paa paku vo mau a beiko tenaa meve nao batana?

      What did my child do that he's coming along? (lit. and he is going along)

      Source: Nan 03R 101-102

Related entries

• See also:
  • vo...sau² how / (like) whatever
  • vosau² what
  • paku vo do something like something / be like something
  • vo sau² what