Talk:Subjunctive in Dutch

This is not contemporary Dutch

Although Modern Dutch does use subjunctive forms in some cases (set phrases, proverbs, a few compound words like "hetzij"), the majority of what is explained looks like a mixture of archaic Dutch and the author's imagination of what Dutch could have been. The information in the article is therefore outdated and incorrect. Plaats~enwiki (talk) 08:38, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

You are right.‎ Also, the author extensively refers to Weiland's Nederduitsche spraakkunst ten dienste der scholen from 1805, which didn't describe the actual language of the time (let alone of the present), but some sort of made-up Dutch modelled on the grammar of Latin. Therefore, I will remove the sections based on that book. Marrakech (talk) 07:29, 27 February 2016 (UTC)

Does the subjunctive exist in Afrikaans?

Does the subjunctive exist in Afrikaans? Acwilson9 (talk) 19:52, 20 March 2021 (UTC)

Theoretically yes, but not productively, and it exists only in a very limited amount of (mostly archaic) fixed phrases such as in the phrase Dit sy so "So be it" (indicative: Dit is so "So is it"). Morgengave (talk) 21:28, 20 March 2021 (UTC)

Subjunctive of "spelen"

The article says for "spelen":

"Second person: past root + e: Hij speelde."

...but should it not be spele? BrightSunMan (talk) 08:51, 26 September 2022 (UTC)