Verse:Mwail/Old Gloob: Difference between revisions
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======Jussive====== | ======Jussive====== | ||
The jussive bears a wide range of uses: | The jussive is a finite verb form that bears a wide range of uses: | ||
* optatives (wishes), polite requests and hortatives (urging). | * optatives (wishes), polite requests and hortatives (urging). | ||
:'''''Žuadisá áromizé''''' | :'''''Žuadisá áromizé''''' | ||
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* purpose clauses: | * purpose clauses: | ||
** with a relativizer | ** with a relativizer | ||
** after a conditional conjunction ''nit'', ''ar'', or ''gin'', or less commonly after ''vórêl ne'', it expresses "in order that...". | |||
:'''''ħéistê rin chénvàim''''' | :'''''ħéistê rin chénvàim''''' | ||
:<small>word-DEF REL say-PASS-JUSS.3SG.M</small> | :<small>word-DEF REL say-PASS-JUSS.3SG.M</small> | ||
:''the word to say/the word that should be said'' | :''the word to say/the word that should be said'' | ||
* to express a question of what should be done. | * to express a question of what should be done. | ||
:''Iêr vamenavâi?'' | :'''''Iêr vamenavâi?''''' | ||
:<small>how advocate-PASS-JUSS.1SG</small> | :<small>how advocate-PASS-JUSS.1SG</small> | ||
:''How am I to defend myself?'' | :''How am I to defend myself?'' | ||