Re: THEORY: third-person imperatives

In Demuan, the idea of a third person imperative sounds weird. Normal sec=
ond
person imperatives are formed by the root and the imperative suffix. The
pronoun is sometimes added, but is optional.

(ling) tabex tam! - (you) eat it!

Conceivably, a third person (or for that matter, 1st person) imperative
could be formed by adding the appropriate pronoun, although the most norm=
al
way would be a construction such as:

(ling) bile tabex tam ax wing!
you make eat (aka feed) it to him!
(you) make him eat it!

First person plural imperatives (lets verb) are normally formed with
the -joi
suffix. With a pronoun, this takes the form of a toast.

tabejoi - let's eat
wing vejoi winde vuka - may he see his grand-daughter.


A curiosity: I created the 've' word for the Latinate sound, but some
derived frorms seem scarily familiar. 'suveyam' is 'a seen thing', or a
spectacle of some sort. Eerie, no?

---
Fabian


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Hey, I was just wondering how people here handle the third
person imperative.  In my Greek class, we're getting things like

timat=F4 oun ho ge d=EAmos ton Hom=EAron kai ton Euripid=EAn
"Therefore, have the people honor Homer and Euripides"

(I know, I know, a really contrived sentence... but it serves
the point.)

In Degaspregos, one would just use the third person pronoun
or noun with a imperative mode verb:

Sunote, dugatros teoso leobosna teutososna gnoiat
'Son, have your daughter know of the life/history of your tribe'