[lojban] subjunctive

[Steven Belknap <sbelknap@uic.edu>]

From: Steven Belknap <sbelknap@uic.edu>

>  >How does one express the subjunctive mood in Lojban? Or does one
>not do so?
<snip>
>What you want for your example is pupu'o:
>
>     mi pupu'o klama le zarci
>     I was about to go to the store.
>
>There is no implication here that the going
eventually took place.
<snip>
>Back to the subjunctive:
>
>  >Another example, how would I say "If I had a million dollars, I'd
>  >be rich." in Lojban?

<snip>

>What we want to say is something more like:
>
>va'oda'i le nu mi ponse lo megdo be lo'e rupnu kei mi ricfu
>"Under the hypothetical conditions that I have (would have)
>a million dollars, I am (would be) rich."
>
>That's how I see it anyway.
>
>co'o mi'e xorxes


mi pupu'o klama le zarci gi'e na pu klama le zarci

co'o mi'e stivn

Steven Belknap, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pharmacology and Medicine
University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria

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