activeselective | ‘debe’ en olandes / Was: Constructions with ‘ia’ and ‘va’

• Autor: activeselective
• Tema: ‘debe’ en olandes / Was: Constructions with ‘ia’ and ‘va’
• Data: 2005-10-16 14:33
• Mesaje: 1763 (a supra, presedente, seguente)

Antonio:
>
> And probably in Dutch you have a subjunctive or a konjuntif
> or the like.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjunctive_mood --> about Dutch

I believe that in theory there is a subjunctive of the
infinitive "moeten" (deber) in Dutch: "moete" . But it is very
impractical. When applied in practice, one takes the subjunctive of
the verb that must be done: "drinke" (in stead of "moete drinken").

Even more practical: in reality, nobody uses the subjunctive mood,
unless they play Scrabble -- at least i am always short of letters
to make a normal word.

And, i forgot, next to the present "moeten" and past "moesten",
there is even a perfect: "gemoeten".

Adio,
AS