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Re: La Logique du conditionnel (was: Re: The phrase 'I'd like...')

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Friday, January 16, 2004, 22:06
En réponse à Ph. D. :


>Li fermas la pordon = He closes the door. >Fermu la pordon! = Close the door! >Mi volas, ke li fermu la pordon = I want him to close the door. > {lit. I want, that he close the door}
Indeed.
>(Although it's never referred to as a subjunctive in Esp-o >books.
Maybe not in the ones you have. But in the ones I've read, it is always referred as such (and "imperative" is just a use of the subjunctive).
> It's always called the imperative.
As I said, not in the books I read, nor in the learning method I had. Christophe Grandsire. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.