The Pluperfect Active Subjunctive

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[@AlbertCheng69]

Great video! I have a question though. Just in the example at the end, why would you use the subjunctive for 'fecisses'? Couldn't you just put it in the indicative and put 'scivi quid feceras'?

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[@markdelta8701]

Why in "I knew what you had done" is the pluperfect SUBJUNCTIVE and not the pluperfect INDICATIVE needed? What is so unreal in what somebody had done before I got to know about it?

[@latintutorial]

It’s not that it’s not a real question, but that the question is being posed indirectly, and so you can think about it as not a “real” question. The factual statement is that “I knew something”.

[@markdelta8701]

@@latintutorial Gratias ago! Does it mean that in any case of reported speech subjunctive mode is to be used in the clause?

[@latintutorial]

Questions and commands (he ordered me to go home), yes, but regular indirect speech/indirect statement (he said that I was going home) annoyingly does not - this would use an accusative + infinitive construction.

[@markdelta8701]

@@latintutorial Thanks again! And of course, thanks a lot for you lessons as a whole. This is a very greate stuff indeed. Very systematic and helpful. Does your remark imply that statements expressing knowledge (I khow that he...) fall int the catefory of "questions and commands" rather than that of "regular indirect speech statement"? A bit confusing.

[@latintutorial]

No. There are three forms of indirect discourse in Latin. Questions and commands use the subjunctive with a subordinate clause, while statements use the accusative + infinitive construction.

[@michaelbellone1680]

Would use the pluperfect active subjunctive to translate: "You have eaten". Italian uses the past subjunctive "tu abbia mangiato". Is Latin similar? thank you

[@legaleagle46]

Wouldn't a better translation of "scivi" be "I found out" or "I learned," since the Perfect deals with completed actions in the past, but "knowing" can't be completed (I knew what you had done, but I no longer know it?) If you really want to say "I knew what you had done" in a way that makes sense, you would need to say "Sciebam quid fecisses," I should think.

[@nemoschmitz2374]

In Spanish this distinction would definitely be made. (supe vs sabía). But I don't know Latin well enough to say whether they did it as well

[@legaleagle46]

@@nemoschmitz2374 It would make sense that Latin did as well, since Spanish (and all other Romance languages) inherited both the Preteriit and the Imperfect and the rules for using them directly from Latin. "Supe" comes from Latin "sapui" and "sabía" comes from Latin "sapiebam," both from "sapere," which replaced "scire" in all Romance languages except Romanian (Romanian uses "a ști," which comes from "scire.") So just as Spanish "Supe lo que habías hecho" translates to "I found out/learned what you had done," so, logically, would Latin "Scivi quid fecisses."

[@gabor6259]

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