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====Conditional==== | ====Conditional==== | ||
A mix of | A mix of moods is used to indicate protases and apodoses so there is no need for "if". Both clauses are began with the verb and separated with a short pause (comma). | ||
General truths and high probabilities are indicated with conditional in protasis (if-clause of condition) and indicative in apodosis (the consequence) both using the same tense: ''Millel, jusa kela milyreke.'' (If it rains, the earth will become wet.) Another yet rarer option for factual conditional sentences is imperative (3SG) and 2nd passive: ''Mil, bujussa kelax milyreke.'' Present tense is used for logical implications and future for predictive sentences. | General truths and high probabilities are indicated with conditional in protasis (if-clause of condition) and indicative in apodosis (the consequence) both using the same tense: ''Millel, jusa kela milyreke.'' (If it rains, the earth will become wet.) Another yet rarer option for factual conditional sentences is imperative (3SG) and 2nd passive: ''Mil, bujussa kelax milyreke.'' Present tense is used for logical implications and future for predictive sentences. | ||
For contrafactual conditional sentences, Aoma uses eventive in protasis and either subjunctive (for hightly unlikely) or conditional mood in apodosis: | For contrafactual conditional sentences, Aoma uses eventive (EVE = eventive mood) in protasis and either subjunctive (for hightly unlikely) or conditional mood in apodosis: | ||
''Eman efire, ememane kyxu.'' | "I would be happy, if you were here." | ||
*COND-be.PRES.1SG happy, EVE-be.COND.PRES.2SG DEM.LOC | *''Eman efire, ememane kyxu.'' | ||
** | **COND-be.PRES.1SG happy, EVE-be.COND.PRES.2SG DEM.LOC | ||
"If I were a soldier, I would go to war." | |||
*''Emenan töshy, paparan töshee.'' | |||
**EVE-be.COND.PRES.1SG soldier, SUBJ-leave.FUT.1SG war-DAT | |||
==Registers== | ==Registers== | ||