Contionary:eh

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Bemé

Etymology

Unknown.

Pronunciation

Polysemant

eh

  1. (with bi) existential verb
    Eh bi pasej mi dan rimembawin...
    "There's a passage I remembered..."
  2. (after a verb) forms an imperative verb
    Pit eh yu chobak.
    "Spit out your gum."
  3. (before a verb or between two verbs) forms an infinitive verb
    Eh bi nga n'eh bi, dat bi krestan.
    "To be or not to be, that is the question."
  4. (one's) own
    Dag itin im eh pyuk.
    "A dog eats its own feces." (John Travolta,
    1994, Quentin Tarantino, directed by Quentin Tarantino, Pulp Fiction (motion picture; overall work in English), spoken by Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson), Miramax, →OCLC:
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