Farbauti
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Hello Forum,
I have found the following fragment in a fairy-tale book
" (...) And she thought it was very dangerous to have the mallet there, for she said to herself: 'Suppose him an me was to be married, and we was to have a son, (...) "
As you can assume I have a problem with the bolded parts. Maybe it is ancient speak, because the fairy-tale is from the 19th century. I searched in the Internet and found explanations like "it can express futurity in the past". But for the woman who is talking it isn't the past, is it?
An alternative for the sentence could be 'Suppose him and me would be married (..)', couldn't it?
Thank you for your help
I have found the following fragment in a fairy-tale book
" (...) And she thought it was very dangerous to have the mallet there, for she said to herself: 'Suppose him an me was to be married, and we was to have a son, (...) "
As you can assume I have a problem with the bolded parts. Maybe it is ancient speak, because the fairy-tale is from the 19th century. I searched in the Internet and found explanations like "it can express futurity in the past". But for the woman who is talking it isn't the past, is it?
An alternative for the sentence could be 'Suppose him and me would be married (..)', couldn't it?
Thank you for your help
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