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[lojban-beginners] Subjunctive in Lojban



What is the way to exspress the equivalent of the subjunctive mood in lojban? In American English, this would be the difference between {I insist that Joe goes to class} and {I insist that Joe go to class}. The first one is declarative and says that it's true, the second just says that I *want* it to be true. I think the British English version of the second sentence is {I insist that Joe should go to class}.

The distinction is pretty slight in English, so it tends to be supplemented with other words around it. In all honesty, I didn't even know that the subjunctive existed until I studied it in Spanish.

Is there a way to make this distinction in lojban?

mu'omi'e .alex.