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====The renarrative past==== | ====The renarrative past==== | ||
The renarrative past is a tense derived by the old Latin perfect (with analogically created forms for formerly deponent verbs), but in Wendlandish it marks evidentiality and can be translated as "I've been told that X". Compare these two examples: | The renarrative past is a tense derived by the old Latin perfect (with analogically created forms for formerly deponent verbs), but in Wendlandish it marks evidentiality and can be translated as "I've been told that X" or more generically "[subj] apparently X". Compare these two examples: | ||
: ''If jatt ipist, hvofur if hejt aðøft propka.'' "He is late because he found a traffic jam." (I know for sure he was stuck in a traffic jam, hence the regular past (hejt aðøft < *habet adeptum)) | : ''If jatt ipist, hvofur if hejt aðøft propka.'' "He is late because he found a traffic jam." (I know for sure he was stuck in a traffic jam, hence the regular past (hejt aðøft < *habet adeptum)) | ||
: ''If jatt ipist, hvofur if eðpiskerit propka.'' "He is late because, he told me, he found a traffic jam." (I'm just reporting what he told me, without knowing for sure he was stuck in a traffic jam, hence the renarrative past (eðpiskerit < *adipīscerit)). | : ''If jatt ipist, hvofur if eðpiskerit propka.'' "He is late because, he told me, he found a traffic jam." (I'm just reporting what he told me, without knowing for sure he was stuck in a traffic jam, hence the renarrative past (eðpiskerit < *adipīscerit)). | ||