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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=====