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 | necessity (after impersonal sentences like "it's necessary" or "it's important", without modal verbs)  |  <wrap no>✘</wrap>  |  <wrap yes>✔</wrap>  | | necessity (after impersonal sentences like "it's necessary" or "it's important", without modal verbs)  |  <wrap no>✘</wrap>  |  <wrap yes>✔</wrap>  |
 | habits ("used to") |  <wrap no>✘</wrap>((Nûrlâm uses habitual aspect of verb in past tense))  |  <wrap no>✘</wrap>((Nûrlâm uses habitual aspect of verb in past tense))  |  | habits ("used to") |  <wrap no>✘</wrap>((Nûrlâm uses habitual aspect of verb in past tense))  |  <wrap no>✘</wrap>((Nûrlâm uses habitual aspect of verb in past tense))  | 
 +| expression of strong advice in current circumstances "had better" and personal preferences "would rather", do not have direct correspondence in Nûrlâm, but infinitives and gerundives may be used to translate them |  <wrap no>✘</wrap>((not directly, main verb in infinitive becomes the subject: "To (do smth.) is better for ..."))  |  <wrap no>✘</wrap>((not directly, used only when the phrase is transformed into impersonal sentence "It is better for ... to (do smth.)..."))  |
 | commands and strong advices to explicit person, e.g. after verbs like "command", "order", "demand", "insist", "request", "recommend", "propose", "suggest", "expect", "advice" etc. (Jussive modality) |  <wrap no>✘</wrap>  |  <wrap yes>✔</wrap>  |  | commands and strong advices to explicit person, e.g. after verbs like "command", "order", "demand", "insist", "request", "recommend", "propose", "suggest", "expect", "advice" etc. (Jussive modality) |  <wrap no>✘</wrap>  |  <wrap yes>✔</wrap>  | 
 | desires and wishes to another person to do an action, e.g. after verbs like "want", "wish", "expect", "wait" smb. to do smth. |  <wrap no>✘</wrap>  |  <wrap yes>✔</wrap>  |  | desires and wishes to another person to do an action, e.g. after verbs like "want", "wish", "expect", "wait" smb. to do smth. |  <wrap no>✘</wrap>  |  <wrap yes>✔</wrap>  | 
 | conditional phrases like "to be honest", "to think" with conjunction "if" (usually omitted in English) and other parts (when future tense is implied)  |  <wrap no>✘</wrap>  |  <wrap yes>✔</wrap>  |  | conditional phrases like "to be honest", "to think" with conjunction "if" (usually omitted in English) and other parts (when future tense is implied)  |  <wrap no>✘</wrap>  |  <wrap yes>✔</wrap>  | 
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