Conditional clauses of doubt or future contingency take gif or bûton with subj.
Let dot ghost come, und I vill gif him der greadest path vot I efer got.
I gif you everything, and when I tell you not to run after a bad young feller, you say I nefer loaf you.
But he will haf seen to that: I gif him that much credit.
My liddle taughter, I gif you everything; and you loaf me very moch, eh?
But I gif you not von penny if you marry young Zahn.
Didn't I gifyou that ring last week, and the red silk dress the week pefore?
But wait till the right young man comes along, then I gif you my blessing and two thousand pounds.
Yes, vun of dose soft hats, for I tink de light hurt his eyes ven he come close up to my desk ven I gif him de money.
But dot is not business, for I doan sell it again once I gif it to her.
Vell, I tell you vot I do, I gif you tventy tollars.
Den, by golly, I take him on, und I gif him every veek vat he pay you in board.
Than Wallace said till gud men him about; 325 ‘I will no pess for all this felloune dout, ‘Bot gif it pless bettir to yow than me.
Ill meyt and drynk thai gert on till hym gyff, 155 Gret merwaille was lang tyme gif he mycht leyff: And ek thar to he was in presoune law, Quhill thai thocht tyme on him to hald the law.
With witness her I gif vp my legiance: “For cowardly ye lik to tyne your rycht; “Your selff sone syne to dede thai think to dycht.
And, gif I dar the treuth declair, And nane me fleitschour call, I can to him find a compair, And till his barnis all.
I redd ye, send yon braw Outlaw till, And see gif your man cum will he: Desyre him cum and be your man, And hald of you yon Foreste frie.
And, gif he refuses to do that, Bid him luke for nae good o' me!
It stands me hard," the Outlaw said; "Judge gif it stands na hard wi' me!
An aunter gif ther wolde on, Among an hol hundred, Lyven so for Godes love In tyme of a wyntere.
And gif thou hast any good, And wilt thyself helpen, Help us hertelich therwith, And here I undertake Thou shalt ben brother of oure hous, And a book habben 650 At the nexte chapitre Clerliche enseled.
Experimentis of Alkenemye Of Albertis makyng, Nigromancie and permansie The pouke to reisen, Gif thou thenke, etc.
I vould gif all dat I haf to be left in beace," said the unhappy man.
Bay for it, und say nodings; I vill gif you back de monny to-morrow morning.
I vould gif a goot teal to amuse him," said Schmucke, "he gets so dull.
It is absurd to vork and train your sdrength gif you haf a dreasure.
I shall gif you tausend crowns, and die liddle vone shall haf tausend crowns for her toury, and you shall infest it in her name.
Dat is alvays de vay, gif a man is sixty years old," answered Schmucke.
For gif the Quene wald command me [to] slay Johne Knox, because sche is offendit at him, I wald nocht obey hir.
But thair is no commandiment gevin to the peopill," said the Secretour, "to punisch thair King gif he be ane idoliter.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gif" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
