Re: past tense imperative

René Uittenbogaard wrote:

> A couple of days ago, I was struck by an interesting grammatical construction
> in Dutch. Dutch has a construction in which an imperative can be used in
> the past perfect:
>
> Had dat dan gezegd!	- You should have told me so!
> Was dan niet gegaan!	- You shouldn't have gone!
>
> AFAIK, in other languages, the imperative always seems to be used with the
> present tense.
Cool! I'm stealing (with a few adjustments) that for Eretas.

K.