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# {{eng|if}}, {{eng|whether}} (''regarding the truth value of a proposition'') [+indicative]
# {{eng|if}}, {{eng|whether}} (''introduces the question of a proposition's truth value'') [+indicative]
{{defex|Gjøn sjelg, '''gjøș''' kad devúl?|Do you know '''if''' he’s done it?}}
{{defex|Hjei sjelta, '''gjøș''' kad devúl.|I don’t know '''if''' he’s done it.}}
# {{eng|even if}} [+dubitative]
{{defex|Stratuos, '''gjøn''' rapavú.|We will fight, '''even if we''' die.}}


==== Usage notes ====
==== Usage notes ====

Revision as of 20:42, 4 February 2023

Radestrian

Etymology

Inherited fromProto-Radic *ɣo, fromProto-Hirdic *gho, fromProto-Laenkean *g(ʱ)e/o(j)-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key)/jœ/, /j/, /œ/
  • Rhymes: -, (3)

Particle

gjø

  1. question-forming particle

Lua error in Module:languages at line 5: No such language (Bist gjøn devúl?). Lua error in Module:languages at line 5: No such language (Gjøș hovend devúl lirș skanþs?).

Usage notes

  • This particle adopts all personal agreement from the clause verb, leaving the verb in its impersonal form.
    • The impersonal form of Template:wl-rad in the indicative non-past is ∅, unless emphatic.

Inflection

Inflection of gjø  
person singular plural
first inclusive gjøi gjøs
exclusive gjøte
second humble gjøn
neutral gjøn gjø
third gjøș

See also

Conjunction

gjø

  1. if, whether (introduces the question of a proposition's truth value) [+indicative]

Lua error in Module:languages at line 5: No such language (Hjei sjelta, gjøș kad devúl.).

  1. even if [+dubitative]

Lua error in Module:languages at line 5: No such language (Stratuos, gjøn rapavú.).

Usage notes

  • This conjunction adopts all personal agreement from the clause verb, leaving the verb in its impersonal form.
    • The impersonal form of Template:wl-rad in the indicative non-past is ∅, unless emphatic.

Inflection

Inflection of gjø  
person singular plural
first inclusive gjøi gjøs
exclusive gjøte
second humble gjøn
neutral gjøn gjø
third gjøș