Welcome back to #CrucianwithMami, today I’m going to talk about the 1st person plural We, We in Standard English has five forms (We, Us, Our, Ours, and Ourselves) in Crucian We also has five forms but they are a little bit different, in Crucian we use (We, We or Allawe, Ow-a or We, Ow-a own, We own or Ow-a’s, and Ow-a-self or Weself), where Standard English would say Us in Crucian we say We or Allawe. Allawe is simply “All of us”, we never just say us it is always All of us.
Sample Sentences:
SE: We sang as we walked.
Crucian: We does sing as we walk.
SE: We don’t want a new carpet.
Crucian: We dohn wahn a new carpet.
SE: I hope he likes us.
Crucian: I hope he like allawe.
SE: You didn’t tell us it was her birthday.
Crucian: You ain tell we ih wuz ha buttday.
SE: We are already on our way.
Crucian: We deh on ow-a/we way.
SE: Don’t tell our parents!
Crucian: Dohn tell ow-a/we parents!
SE: Their children study hard while ours never study.
Crucian: Dey chirren dem does study hard while ow-a/we/ow-a’s (own) dohn study.
I know you noticed the two placements of does, I’ve been thinking of our use of does a lot and it seems to be used when we should be using a word in the past tense. Like in the previous sentence We sang as we walked, in Crucian it was we does sing as we walk. It doesn’t always work that way though, sometimes we just use the word in its present tense like He carried something on his back would be He carry something on he back or He does carry something on he back.
SE: Your house isn’t better than ours.
Crucian: Yo house ain betta dan we/ow-a/ow-a’s (own).
You might have also noticed the own after we or ow-a. Well, this only happens when using ow-a as a possessive pronoun vs using ow-a’s.
SE: We did it ourselves.
Crucian: We do it (by) weself/ow-a-self.
SE: We didn’t enjoy ourselves.
Crucian: We’en enjoy weself/ow-a-self.
At the beginning of the lesson I said Crucian had five forms for the 1st person plural We but in actuality you can simply use just three! We, We own, and Weself. It really just comes down to your own preference.
I hope you enjoyed learning about the Crucian way of using and saying We. The next lesson will focus on the third-person plural They, I’m skipping the second person plural because it is the same as the second person Yo – Yu
See you at the next lesson!
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