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11.10.4
Occasionally the past participle is used as a general impersonal imperative,
particularly with the verbs opletten and oppassen:
Opgelet/Opgepast! Ingerukt mars!
Watch out/Take care. Dismiss.
11.10.5
The imperative form ‘let’ as in ‘Let’s go home’ etc. can be expressed in
two ways in Dutch:
(a) Either by the simple imperative formed from the stem plus the object
pronoun as in English:
Laat ons naar huis gaan! Laat me het zo zeggen.
Let’s go home. Let me put it this way.
(b) Or by using the subject pronoun and the appropriate form of the verb:
Laten we naar huis gaan!
Laat ik het zo zeggen.
11.10.6
For the use of men in very formal imperatives see 11.11.
11.11
The subjunctive mood
De aanvoegende wijs
The subjunctive mood, which was formerly quite common in Dutch and
may still be met in older literature, is not actively used any more. It has
suffered the same fate in Dutch as in English—it is only preserved in
certain standard expressions. As in English, it is used to express actions
that are wished for, feared, doubted or are conditional on other occasions.
(see 11.7.1)
The present subjunctive only differs from the present indicative in that
the first and third persons singular end in -e, e.g. ik werke, hij worde. Jij,
being a familiar form, is never found with a subjunctive form of the verb.