Hi, I would like to use Quenya in an everydaystile, at least in theory, and therefore I am searching for polite ways to express wishes. Of course there is an imperative, but "give me a waterglass" is not very polite. Of course "mecin" could be used as "please", but "give me a waterglass, please" is still not polite enough in my opinion. I think, the best would be to use the subjunctive in a leading question, maybe even combined with please, like "Could you give me a waterglass, please?".
So: does a way exist to put verbs in the subjunctive? It should be possible, for Tolkien also created imperative and indicative, so subjunctive would be the last missing mode.
The words for "if" do already exist, like cé and qui, but how are sentences created with that? I mean: what is the syntax like, and how have the verbs to be? Like the tenses in the three english if-clauses? Are there precedents how Tolkien used it?
One more thing: I thought, maybe the suffix -ce could make a verb a subjunctive one. At least there is a precedent: náce, but for two reasons I am still sceptic.
At first -ce is added to the verb in the present tense, not to the stem. That sounds unusual. Secondly na is such a fundamental word that I am not sure if we will be able to reason any linguistic rule on this fundament (and of course one single word is not enough to deduce a rule).
Anyway, what do you think? Could I say for instance "lertace" (stem+ce), or maybe "lerteace" (present tense+ce) for "could"? Or do you know other ways for if-clauses and subjunctive verbs?
I'm grateful for any answer.