Example 30-98

Dios ál dá-u sórti!
Dios
God
ál
opt
dá=u
give=2sg
sórti!
luck
May God grant you luck!
German: Gott möge dir Glück schenken!
Comment:
In this sentence ál is clearly 'optative' ('May God …). In other contexts it has an epistemic meaning indicating that the speaker is uttering a supposition.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Veiga 1987: 132