More Uses of the Subjunctive

1. More Uses of the Subjunctive Optative Deliberative Potential April 26, 2013

2. Create Infinitive Charts For EachLatin AND English! • laudo, laudare, laudavi, laudatus: praise • moneo, monēre, monui, monitus: warn • rego, regere, rexi, rectus: rule • capio, capere, cēpi, captus: capture • dormio, dormire, dormivi, dormitus: sleep

3. Other Subjunctive Uses • Optative subjunctive: expresses a wish • Optatives are often introduced with utinam: “oh, if only…” or “if only…” • Use “ne” instead of “non” to make it negative • Present: use “may” • Imperfect: use “might” • Perfect: use “had”

4. Optative Subjunctive • Utinampuellamatremamet. • If only the girl may love her mother. • (Utinam) puellamatremamaret. • If only the girl might love her mother. • (Utinam) puellamatremamavisset. • If only the girl had loved her mother.

5. Deliberative Subjunctive • A sentence in which something is being considered or deliberated. • The negative uses “non” (not “ne”). • Present subjunctive: “Am I to..”, “Are you to…” etc. • Imperfect subjunctive: “Was I to…”, “Were you to…” etc.

6. Deliberative Subjunctive • Amemmatrem? • Am I to love my mother? • Puellamatremamet? • Is the girl to love her mother? • Amaremmatrem? • Was I to love my mother? • Puellamatrem non amaret? • Was the girl not to love her mother?

7. Potential Subjunctive • A sentence which expresses the opinion of the speaker as an opinion. • “Non” makes it negative. • Present: should • Imperfect: would have, might have, could have

8. Potential Subjunctive • Quid facerem? What could I have done? • Urbemdelerinolim. I would not like the city to be destroyed.