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===Conditional clauses===
===Conditional clauses===
Generally true statement:
Generally true conditional clauses use ''i'' + a verb in the present tense in the protasis:
:'''''I tøøh a ñwi, (coþ) gias a cnoo.'''''  
:'''''I tøøh a ñwi, (coþ) gias a cnoo.'''''  
:if go_down SPEC rain (then) wet SPEC grass
:''If it rains, (then) the grass is wet.''
:''If it rains, (then) the grass is wet.''
(Also found in literary contexts with the same meaning: ''Tøøhor a barah, ...'' lit. 'Let it rain...')


Conditional on a possible future event:
Clauses describing something conditional on a possible future event use ''i'' + future tense:
:'''''I tøøht a ñwi, faht gias a cnoo.''''' [also found: ''Tøøhor a barah, ...'' lit. 'Let it rain...']
:'''''I tøøht a ñwi, faht gias a cnoo.'''''  
:if go_down-FUT SPEC rain be.FUT wet SPEC grass
:''If it rains [lit. if it will rain] the grass will be wet.''
:''If it rains [lit. if it will rain] the grass will be wet.''


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:''Wherever you go, I will go.''
:''Wherever you go, I will go.''


Counterfactual supposition:
Time clauses (when, while, before, after) work similarly to non-counterfactual conditional clauses that use ''i''.
 
Counterfactual suppositions use a different conjunction ''gob'' + present tense, and the apodosis uses a verb in the conditional tense:
:'''''Gob tøøh a ñwi, liað gias a cnoo.'''''
:'''''Gob tøøh a ñwi, liað gias a cnoo.'''''
:if_counterfactual go_down SPEC rain be.COND wet SPEC grass
:Had it rained, the grass would have been wet.
:Had it rained, the grass would have been wet.
Time clauses (when, while, before, after) work similarly.


===Method clauses===
===Method clauses===
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