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Definite articles work as suffixes of the noun, so ''bo'' "boy" becomes ''bo-la'' "the boy" or ''bo-yé'' "the boys". ''-la'' drops the /l/ after a consonant excluding /j/, so ''bêl'' "girl" becomes ''bêl-a'' "the girl" and ''bêl-yé'' "the girls". Indefinite articles are prepositional, so ''pom'' "apple" becomes ''yan pom'' "an apple" or ''yé pom'' "some apples".

Although Dazurian Creole is losing out in favour of [[Bemé]] in everyday use, the language is still regularly used in the context of the religion (sometimes considered a [[w:Cargo cult|cargo cult]]) '''Papkouron'''. In the religion, adherents believe in a Christ-like saviour called the Granpap Kouron (Dazurian Creole: ''Granpap' Kourôn'' [[Help:IPA|[grɑ̃pap kurɔn]]], <small>lit.</small> "Grandfather [[w:Kingdom of France|Crown]]"), reflecting the now-absent French colonial administration that ruled the island prior to 1820. The religion probably stemmed from collective trauma under British colonial rule, which then conversely lended the French colonial period a nostalgic air; with no Dazurians who lived through the French colonial period left to say otherwise, this colonial nostalgic fever came to a head and formed the Papkouron religion that worshipped what anthropologists seem to believe was a headless Jesus statue, left behind in the remnants of a French Catholic church.