Verse:Mwail/Old Gloob: Difference between revisions
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======Jussive====== | ======Jussive====== | ||
The jussive bears a wide range of uses: | The jussive bears a wide range of uses: | ||
* optatives (wishes) (''Žuadìm | * optatives (wishes) (''Žuadìm áromizé'' "May your life be long!"), polite requests and hortatives (urging); | ||
* prohibitions, with the prohibitive marker (''Hám skőtîr!'' "Don't walk!"); | * prohibitions, with the prohibitive marker (''Hám skőtîr!'' "Don't walk!"); | ||
* imperatives in indirect speech, with the complementizer ''ne'' (''Kýlês ne stumî.'' "He ordered me to go back."); | * imperatives in indirect speech, with the complementizer ''ne'' (''Kýlês ne stumî.'' "He ordered me to go back."); | ||