Translation
if
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Examples
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If you wish, come.
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If this is true, everything must be changed.
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If anyone says this, I shall not believe it.
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If my father were here, I would be glad.
tacuisses, philosophus .
If you had kept quiet, you would have stayed a philosopher.
"si" opens a conditional clause, and the MOOD of the verb tells you what kind. The INDICATIVE presents the condition as a plain fact or a real possibility: "si hoc verum est", if this is true. The SUBJUNCTIVE marks it as unreal or merely imagined, and then both halves of the sentence go subjunctive together: present or imperfect for something contrary to fact now, pluperfect for something that did not happen in the past.
The negative is not "si non" but "nisi", unless. Latin also has a set of compounds built on it, including "sive" and "seu" for "or if" in a two-branch condition, both of which the source corpus records as forms of this word.
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(3)Grammar articles
(9)Latin Conditional Sentences: si, nisi and the Subjunctive
Latin Connectors: tamen, quamquam, ergo, igitur and autem
Latin cum Clauses: when, since and although
Latin Future, Pluperfect and Future Perfect
Latin Interjections and Conversation Words: heus, ecce, edepol
Latin Question Words: quis, quid, ubi, cur
Latin Tattoo Phrases: Grammatical Ones and Famous Mistakes
Latin Perfect and Pluperfect Subjunctive: amaverim, amavissem
Latin Slang: How Romans Actually Spoke
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This word is taught in chapter 1, lesson 4: si, ex, per and 11 more words.