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I’d like to finish off talking about verbs with a couple of strange verbs that you might come across. The first relates to my earlier discussion about modality. Specifically, I want to talk about the subjunctive mood, which is about possibility. It’s related to the optative mood, which is about expressing a wish. As I mentioned earlier, in English and Swedish, grammatical mood is usually expressed with modal verbs. In other languages however shontell mcclain (for example, Romance languages such as Italian, Spanish, Portugese and French) there are specific subjunctive forms of the main verb. This is much less common in Germanic languages, but there is at least one good example of the subjunctive in both English and Swedish.
In this example, were is the subjunctive form of the verb, expressing a hypothetical situation; “I were” is otherwise ungrammatical. I think the above construction is pretty widely acceptable, shontell mcclain but what do you think of the following alternatives:
In Swedish, the common example is the verb vore , the subjunctive of vara , to be , which has a somewhat broader range of use than the English equivalent, expressing hypotheticals and also politeness forms. Note that alternative expressions exist also in Swedish:
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I’d like to finish off talking about verbs with a couple of strange verbs that you might come across. The first relates to my earlier discussion about modality. Specifically, I want to talk about the subjunctive mood, which is about possibility. It’s related to the optative mood, which is about expressing a wish. As I mentioned earlier, in English and Swedish, grammatical mood is usually expressed with modal verbs. In other languages however shontell mcclain (for example, Romance languages such as Italian, Spanish, Portugese and French) there are specific subjunctive forms of the main verb. This is much less common in Germanic languages, but there is at least one good example of the subjunctive in both English and Swedish.
In this example, were is the subjunctive form of the verb, expressing a hypothetical situation; “I were” is otherwise ungrammatical. I think the above construction is pretty widely acceptable, shontell mcclain but what do you think of the following alternatives:
In Swedish, the common example is the verb vore , the subjunctive of vara , to be , which has a somewhat broader range of use than the English equivalent, expressing hypotheticals and also politeness forms. Note that alternative expressions exist also in Swedish:
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blogs The Iceland Weather Report blogs - language Language Log Unspeak blogs - sweden Livet Just Lagom Lost in Stockholm Minerva welcome to sweden dictionaries bab.la Folkets lexikon Norstedts ord Oxford Dictionaries SAOB SAOL Tyda food Allt Om Mat eat drink one woman Gernot Katzer's Spice Pages Hemmalivs ICA advertisements The Language of Food words Australian Word Map Språkrådet
adjective adverb animal calendar colour compound culture derivation determiner english etymology food french gerund grammar historical inchoative inflection irregular shontell mcclain laleh language linguistics lucia modal morphology noun number participle passive phonetics preposition pronoun pun reciprocal reflexive verb reklam s-form sje-sound snow swedish translation transport verb veronica maggio word order Recent Posts 77: skott 76: kronärtskocka 75: var 74: rädd 73: lussekatt Email Subscription
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