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[kittydesade]

Notice that in English the subjunctive forms of main verbs are often identical with the past tense (e.g. played, could, were [colloquial: was]) In German the same principle applies. For weak verbs, the present-time subjunctive is identical to the simple past tense (e.g. spielte); for modals and strong verbs the subjunctive is based on the simple-past tense form of the verb (e.g. konnte > könnte, war > wäre). German uses the present-time subjunctive to express subjunctive for present and future time.

Because that wasn't confusing or anything.

e.g. Wenn Alex besser Golf spielte, würden wir mit ihm spielen. If Alex played better golf, we'd play with him.
Wenn ich das könnte, würde ich es tun. If I could (do that), I would.
Wenn Claudia nicht müde wäre, würde sie heute Golf spielen. If Claudia were not tired, she would play golf today.


Present time subjunctive of the main verb vs the würde-construction
Present-time subjunctive -- würde-construction
Wenn Alex nur besser spielte -- Wenn alex nur besser spielen würde
Wenn Tanja nur etwas täte -- Wenn Tanja nur etwas tun würde
Wenn Kevin nur ginge --- Wenn Kevin nur gehen würde

In present time either the würde-construction or the subjunctive form of the main verb can be used. However, for the verbs sein, haben, and the modals, the present-time subjunctive is generally used instead of the würde-construction.




Only another hour or so before I can go home and change into sweatpants that don't feel weird on my menstrually bloated body and curl up and maybe sleep until this phase of the biological cycle is over.

So, got home, did some housecleaning and lost and found a cat a couple of times, and now am comfortably settled in watching V for Vendetta, like you do when it's the 5th of November and suddenly a lot of the hyperbole in that movie doesn't seem quite so hyperbolic, and it's not even your own country's history anyway. Well, not directly. And yet I can kind of see things heading that way. Well, the V for Vendetta direction, not the way of the circumstances that led to Guy Fawkes' little escapade.

Of course, now that I have fifty things to write I've been bunnied again for a Talia and Bane and Bruce AU where Thomas Wayne somehow manages to find Talia and Bane shortly after the Pit and fixes Bane up (or at least starts to) and protects them both and starts them on LOADS OF THERAPY THAT THEY SO SORELY NEED and, well, you know. And. Things. And now it's gnawing at my brain and it won't go away.

Nano first, though. Or Anna will kill me.

Comments

[lireavue]

It's true. Don't make me break out the frying pans. :P

[kikibug13]

... woman, I want to read that. Maybe you can treat somebody for Yuletide?