Latin A-Level
Wishes and the utinam construction
What Wishes and the utinam construction means in Latin A-Level, as defined for OCR.
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A wish uses the present subjunctive for what may still happen, the imperfect for an unfulfilled wish about the present and the pluperfect for one about the past, often introduced by utinam.
Topics that use Wishes and the utinam construction
- 5d. Latin Accidence and Syntax - Syntax (OCR A-Level)
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