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| ''cōreç'' → '''''cōreat'''''<br>''cōrēlō'' → '''''cōreālō''''' | | ''cōreç'' → '''''cōreat'''''<br>''cōrēlō'' → '''''cōreālō''''' | ||
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=====Forming the subjunctive===== | |||
The subjunctive is formed by shifting a verb's base theme vowel, as described by the table to the left. This shift happens after the stem, but may be either before or after the suffix, depending on whether or not there is a theme vowel before the suffix in the indicative. So the perfective of '''''aedēs''''' ("they should love it") is '''''aedēvis''''' (from indicative '''''aedāvis''''') but '''''saepiās''''' ("they should cut it") is '''''saepuēs''''' (from indicative '''''saepuis'''''), not **''aedāvēs'' or **''saepēvis''. Although these forms are occasionally found in non-standard writing, they are considered incorrect my grammaticians. | The subjunctive is formed by shifting a verb's base theme vowel, as described by the table to the left. This shift happens after the stem, but may be either before or after the suffix, depending on whether or not there is a theme vowel before the suffix in the indicative. So the perfective of '''''aedēs''''' ("they should love it") is '''''aedēvis''''' (from indicative '''''aedāvis''''') but '''''saepiās''''' ("they should cut it") is '''''saepuēs''''' (from indicative '''''saepuis'''''), not **''aedāvēs'' or **''saepēvis''. Although these forms are occasionally found in non-standard writing, they are considered incorrect my grammaticians. | ||
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The 1st person subjunctive perfective in verbs that have no theme vowel before the suffix and does not extend the root vowel is identical to the indicative, and the mood must be inferred through conext: '''''saepuī''''' may be either "they cut me" or "They should cut me." | The 1st person subjunctive perfective in verbs that have no theme vowel before the suffix and does not extend the root vowel is identical to the indicative, and the mood must be inferred through conext: '''''saepuī''''' may be either "they cut me" or "They should cut me." | ||
=====Uses of the subjunctive===== | |||
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 subjunction 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. | |||
:*''<u>aegeārur</u> oelun stere'' | |||
:::'This job <u>may seem</u> difficult' | |||
:*''<u>moeiea</u> oscülan salva'' | |||
:::'Little Oscus <u>might like</u> a book' | |||
====Optative==== | ====Optative==== | ||
====Potential==== | ====Potential==== | ||