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The subjunctive has numerous uses, ranging from what potentially might be true to what the speaker wishes or commands should happen. It is often translated with 'should', 'could', 'would', 'may' and so on, but in certain contexts it is translated as if it were an ordinary indicative verb. | The subjunctive has numerous uses, ranging from what potentially might be true to what the speaker wishes or commands should happen. It is often translated with 'should', 'could', 'would', 'may' and so on, but in certain contexts it is translated as if it were an ordinary indicative verb. | ||
One use of the | One use of the subjunctive is the '''speculative subjunction''', used when the speaker imagines what potentially may, might, would, or could happen in the present or future or might have happened in the past. | ||
:*'''''augeārur''' oelun stere'' | :*'''''augeārur''' oelun stere''<br>'This job '''may seem''' difficult' | ||
:*'''''moeiea''' oscülan salva''<br>'Little Oscus '''might like''' a book' | |||
:*'''''moeiea''' oscülan salva'' | :*''ūdēvī et īliānī salvan gen tlānae aerānïdae agnō dentan '''iuvea'''''<br>'I heard that Ilianus is '''writing''' a book about matters of the Aeranid Empire' | ||
The subjunctive may also carry an '''optative''' meaning, expressing what the speaker wishes may happen, or wishes had happened. These expresses a weaker or more generalised desire, as opposed to the desiderative mood. | |||
:*''ūdēvī et īliānī salvan gen tlānae aerānïdae agnō dentan '''iuvea''''' | :*'''''{{term|proetēstī}}''' monde!''<br>''''May you be healthy''' and prosperous!' | ||
====Desiderative==== | ====Desiderative==== | ||