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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), polite requests and hortatives (urging).
* prohibitions, with the prohibitive marker (''Hám scőtîr!'' "Don't walk!").
:'''''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'' (''cýlês ne stumî.'' "He ordered me to go back.").
* 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'''''
:''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 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=====