Re: Moody Moods ...

Andreas Johansson wrote:


> We-ell, I'm refering to the German mood called "konjunktiv" in my German
> grammar book. Seen in _WÄRE ich reich, WÜRDE ich ein Auto kaufen_, and
> _LEBE
> die Freiheit_.
Exactly.  "Subjunctive" in English.  It comes in two flavors --
not really tenses any more, but still called the
"present subjunctive" = "I. Konjunktiv" and the "past subjunctive" =
"II. Konjunktiv".  My statement that the first only existed in
fossilized forms and in "I suggest that he play Hamlet" sentences
applied to the present.  The past is alive and well and used in
contrary-to-fact conditions.

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