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 y  cngo   ní  wo  de  ‘This  is  not  good  give  that one’ 
5  1  2  5  4
 

t

k

kr

 rat 

so 

ró 

‘Work 

in  the  day (and)  sleep  in the  night’
2-3  1  5-6  4
 

mcchĩ

bĩ

w 

kÚj 

nIkkĩ

‘Some 

fish  are  big  and  some  are  small’
6 6

 etc.


Complex sentences with Conditional clauses

 

Sentences formed with the help of the co referential discontinuous connectives such as je/kde---d, je---t, ji cIr---i cIr, jItno---Itno are complex sentences and one of the clauses underlined is the conditional clause.
 

(1) /je----d/ ‘If-----then’. Sentences constituted of this connective, the first clauses having conditional function is introduced with /je/ and the other being introduced by /d/ having desiderative as well as hypothetical meanings but the condition is unfulfilled. Both the clauses have cause-result relationship. Various forms of the verbs such as imperfective participle, contingent along with desiderative auxiliary verb, perfective participle, future verbal forms in both the clauses and also the contingent form with the subjunctive function in the first clause i.e. conditional can occur with the future tense verbal form in the following clause joined by /d/. Examples are:

je 

hũ

roţ

khato 

dє  

b

rto

7

‘If 

had eaten 

the 

food 

then 

would 

have 

remained  well’

5  7  6

je 

hũ

ak

hoto 

d  

Is 

gera 

na 

bca 

leto

1

 2  10

‘If 

were 

doctor 

then 

would 

have 

saved 

this  boy’

9-10  7-8

je 

mewo 

khaũ

ã 

d  

bl

 rũ

ã

9
 

‘If 

had 

eaten 

fruit 

then 

would 

have 

remained  healty’

4-5  3  6  8-9  7
 

je 

tũ 

k

kr  

d  

cngo 

r  

a

9
 

If 

you  had  worked  then  it  would  have been  better.
1  2  3-4-5  6  8-9  7
 

je 

we 

It 

r 

ã  

d€

b

r

ã

1

 2  9
 

If 

they  had  lived  here  then  they  would  have  been  well

4-5 

3

7
 

je 

bdd 

wèya 

d  

cnga 

wèya

1

 2  6
 

‘If 

it 

rained 

then  it  would  have  been  nice’

2-3  5
 

je 

wo 

awgo 

d  

hũ

 jaũgo

6
 

If 

he  comes  then  will  go

 

 

 

 

5

 

6

 

 

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