Tenses etc.

[Francisc Czobor]

Hi, Fredrik,

The German authors (like Streitberg a century ago and Koebler in the 
present) speak about "Indikativ, Optativ, Imperativ". David Salo in 
his "Gothic Lessons" speaks about "Indicative, Subjunctive, 
Imperative", and it seems to me that most English-speaking authors use 
this terminology. As far as I remember the mood called "Subjunctive" 
or "Optativ" functions mainly as an optative in Gothic.

Francisc

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "Fredrik" <gadrauhts at h...> wrote:
> ....
> I have been a bit confused lately. In my book I've read that there's 
> three moods in gothic. The swedish names of these are indikativ, 
> konjunktiv and imperativ. I'm not good at the english names of 
> grammar word but when I checked it out in a dictionary it turned out 
> that konjunktiv is subjunctive in english. In verbix it says that the 
> three moods are indicative, imperative and optative. Btw. optative is 
> optativ in swedish. What's real? Is this third mood subjunctive or 
> optative? As far as I know it ain't much difference between them 
> anyway, but I don't know for sure.
> 
> /Fredrik




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