SUBJECTIVES
USED IN INDEPENDENT SENTENCES AND PRINCIPAL CLAUSES.



* JUSSIVE SUBJUNCTIVE
Nam Deus dixit: Honora patrem et matrem; et qui maledixerit patri vel matri morte moriatur.
For God said : Honour thy father and mothe ; and : if any curse his father or his mother, let him surely die. (Mt.15: 4)

Sine ejiciam festucam de oculo tuo.
Let me cast out the mote out of thine eye. (Mt.7: 4)

* SUBJUNCTIVE - PROHIBITION
99. In viam gentium ne abieritis, et in civitates Samaritanorum ne intraveritis.
Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into the cities of the Samarians enter ye not. (Mt.10: 5)

Nihil feceris tibi mali.
Do thyself no harm. (Acts 16: 28)

Non mireris quia dixi tibi: Oportet vos nasci denuo.
Marvel not that I said to thee: Ye must be born again. (Jn.3: 7)

Qui furabatur, jam non furetur, magis autem laboret.
Let him that stole steal no more, but rather let him lobour. (Eph.4: 28)

Videte ne contemnatis unum ex his pusillis.
See that ye despise not one of these little ones. (Mt.18: 10)

Vide nemini dixeris.
See thou tell no man. (Mt.8: 4)

100. Omnis sermo malus ex vestro non procedat.
Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth. (Eph.4: 29)

* HORTATORY SUBJUNCTIVE
101. Transeamus usque Bethleem, et videamus hoc verbum quod factum est.
Let us go to Bethlehem and see this thing which has come to pass. (Lk.2: 15)

Sanctificetur nomen tuum: adveniat regnum tuum.
Hallowed be thy name: thy kingdom come. (Mt.6: 9)

Utinam fuisset dominus meus ad prophetam, qui est in Samaria.
What that my master were with the prophet who is in Samaria. (II Kings 5: 2)

Utinam frigidus esses aut calidus.
Would that thou wert cold or hot. (Rev.3: 15; I Cor.4: 8)

* DELIBERATIVE SUBJUNCTIVE
102. Euntes emamus denariis ducentis panes?
Are we to go and buy two hundred pennyworth of bread? (Mt.6: 37)

* POTENTIAL SUBJUNCTIVE
103. Profecto curasset eum a lepra, quam habet.
Surely he would have cured him of his leprosy. (II Kings 5:2)

Vix enim pro justo quis moritur: nam pro bono forsitan quia audeat mori.
For scarcely for a just man does one die, but perhaps for a good man one would dare to die. (Rom.5: 7)

Vellem autem esse apud vos modo, et mutare vocem meam.
But I should like to be among you now and to change my tone. (Gal.4: 20)


Sample sentences taken from "An Introduction to ecclesiastical Latin" by H.P.V.Nunn, 1951