Subjunctives

April 4th, 2012

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Subjunctives

Office du Jerriaisgrammar, Sark, vocabulary

Department of LinguisticsHow many subjunctives in -g- are there?

Liddicoat lists only 3 verbs with velar subjunctives âg-, veing-, and tcheing-; noting that Sèrtchais similarly has vẽdj- and tchẽdj-

Lé Jèrriais Pour Tous lists 5 verbs that take a present subjunctive ending in -g-:

aller, verb go, can conjugate in -g- (but not everyone uses this paradigm):
qué j’âge
qué tu’âge
tch’il âge
qu’oulle âge
qué j’âgions
qu’ous âgyiz
tch’il’ âgent

prendre:
tch’i’ prenge

tcheindre:
tch’i’ tcheinge

v’nîn:
tch’i’ veinge

attendre:
tch’il attenge

We also find in literature entendre in one of these subjunctives:
tch’il entenge

And the Dictionnaire states that aveindre can also take a subjunctive in -g-:
tch’il aveinge

Any advance on 7? Not counting compounds, of course.