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This reflection studies, following the functionalist model of André Martinet, the functioning of the primary expansions of the verbal predicate in mboxó, one of the languages of zone C, according to the classification of M. Guthrie, spoken in the northwest of the Republic of Congo. Thus, according to their importance, these expansions are subdided into two subcategories, namely the essential primary expansions which are the direct object complement, the indirect object complement then the agent complement, and the non-essential primary expansions made up circumstances. But this distinction is to be put into perspective all the more so as in practice, certain essential said to be non-essential become essential in certain constructions.