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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'' | * optatives (wishes), polite requests and hortatives (urging). | ||
* prohibitions, with the prohibitive marker | :'''''Žuadisá áromizé''''' | ||
:<small>be_long-JUSS.3SG.F life-DEF.2SG.M</small> | |||
:''May your life be long!'' | |||
* prohibitions, with the prohibitive marker. | |||
:'''''Hám scőtîr!''''' | :'''''Hám scőtîr!''''' | ||
:<small>PROH walk/2SG.JUSS</small> | :<small>PROH walk/2SG.JUSS</small> | ||
:''Don't walk!'' | :''Don't walk!'' | ||
* imperatives in indirect speech, with the complementizer ''ne'' | * imperatives in indirect speech, with the complementizer ''ne'' | ||
:'''''Cýlês ne stúmî.''''' | |||
:<small>urge/PFV.3SG.M COMP return/JUSS.1SG</small> | |||
:''He urged that I go back.'' | |||
* impersonal instructions, in the passive | * impersonal instructions, in the passive | ||
:'''''hadísā ýrnašâ chvystisá''''' | :'''''hadísā ýrnašâ chvystisá''''' | ||
:<small>note-DEF.SG second-DEF.SG.F low/JUSS.3SG.F</small> | :<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 | ** with a relativizer | ||
:'''''ħéistê rin chénvàim''''' | |||
:<small>word-DEF REL say-PASS-JUSS.3SG.M</small> | |||
:''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. | * to express a question of what should be done. | ||
:''Iêr vamenavâi?'' | |||
:<small>how advocate-PASS-JUSS.1SG</small> | |||
:''How am I to defend myself?'' | |||
=====Supplementary aspects===== | =====Supplementary aspects===== | ||