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======Jussive====== | ======Jussive====== | ||
The jussive bears a wide range of uses: | The jussive bears a wide range of uses: | ||
* optatives (wishes) (''Žuadisá áromizé'' "May your life be long!"), polite requests and hortatives (urging) | * optatives (wishes) (''Žuadisá áromizé'' "May your life be long!"), polite requests and hortatives (urging). | ||
* prohibitions, with the prohibitive marker (''Hám scőtîr!'' "Don't walk!") | * prohibitions, with the prohibitive marker (''Hám scőtîr!'' "Don't walk!"). | ||
* imperatives in indirect speech, with the complementizer ''ne'' (''cýlês ne stumî.'' "He ordered me to go back.") | :'''''Hám scőtîr!''''' | ||
* impersonal instructions, in the passive | :<small>PROH walk/2SG.JUSS</small> | ||
:''Don't walk!'' | |||
* imperatives in indirect speech, with the complementizer ''ne'' (''cýlês ne stumî.'' "He ordered me to go back."). | |||
* impersonal instructions, in the passive | |||
:'''''hadísā ýrnašâ chvystisá''''' | |||
:<small>note-DEF.SG second-DEF.SG.F low/JUSS.3SG.F</small> | |||
:'''''the second note is to be lowered''''' | |||
* purpose clauses: | * purpose clauses: | ||
** with a relativizer (''ħéistê rin chenémth'' "the word to say"/"the word that should be said"). | ** with a relativizer (''ħéistê rin chenémth'' "the word to say"/"the word that should be said"). | ||
** after a conditional conjunction ''nit'', ''ar'', or ''gin'', or less commonly after ''vórêl ne'', it expresses "in order that...". | ** after a conditional conjunction ''nit'', ''ar'', or ''gin'', or less commonly after ''vórêl ne'', it expresses "in order that...". | ||
* to express a question of what should be done. | |||
=====Supplementary aspects===== | =====Supplementary aspects===== | ||