Hi everyone,
I am finding it difficult to translate into English the Latin subjunctive when It expresses a wish. Could you plese help me to translate the following?
1. Utinam redeat!
2. Utinam redierit!
3. Utinam rediret!
4. Utinam redisset!
I know that 1 and 2 express a feasible desire in the present and in the past respectively, and 3 and 4 an unfeasible desire, but I don't know how to phrase that in English.
Thanks for you help.
I am finding it difficult to translate into English the Latin subjunctive when It expresses a wish. Could you plese help me to translate the following?
1. Utinam redeat!
2. Utinam redierit!
3. Utinam rediret!
4. Utinam redisset!
I know that 1 and 2 express a feasible desire in the present and in the past respectively, and 3 and 4 an unfeasible desire, but I don't know how to phrase that in English.
Thanks for you help.