#conditional mood

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The Conditional Conundrum

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Conditionals Spanish Conjugation Notes

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Hello again! I know you've done a translation for "Beware the Swarm", but I was wondering if you had one for the other Bohrok tagline, "Wake one, (and) you wake them all". I mean, if you're not too busy with your other translation work.

Done and done:

Nga mivyase, ou nai mivyako.

"Wake one, you wake them all."

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I think the only thing that needs explanation is the -se affixed to mivya in the first clause. It’s derived from the elemental stem for Psionics, and it’s what I’ve been using to indicate conditional mood (i.e. an if-then construction). So it’s basically equivalent to “if”.

Thus, the phrase nga mivya-se translates to “if (you) wake one” (nga “one”) The second clause should be pretty straightforward (ou “you”, nai “all”, mivya-ko “wake-FUT”).