Re: Latin Grammar Dilemma

--- In conlang@y..., bnathyuw <bnathyuw@Y...> wrote:

 > if you want another subject, you use |ut| ( which is
 > rather like your |ud| :

Surprisingly...   ;-)



 > |uoló té ésse| 'i want to eat you'
 > |uoló ut [tú] édás| 'i want you to eat'
 >
 > apperently some clauses usually expressed with |ut| +
 > subj can in poetry take an infinitive, but the
 > examples they give are verbs like 'urge' which would
 > rule out having the same subject for both. furthermore
 > the subject of the infinitive doesn't seem to be
 > expressed

OK...  I guess I'll just stick to the |ud| construction
in the general case, then.



 > hope a) that's helpful and b) that's right !

It certainly was helpful, and above that, it was an
*answer*, the hope for which I had begun to lose.  ;-P

Thanx.



-- Christian Thalmann


PS: I just found the coolest Latin word in my dictionary...
|dênâsâre| "to remove the nose of".   ;-)  I had to import it
into Jovian right away.

Replies