In "I will be coming if this weather holds up", "I will be coming" is the apodosis and "this weather holds up" is the protasis.
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Apodosis
//əˈpɒdəsɪs//
Synonyms for "apodosis" (43 found)
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9 translations across 9 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἀπόδοσις noun (the consequential clause in a conditional sentence)
Arabic
1 entries- جَوَابُ الشَّرْط noun (the consequential clause in a conditional sentence)
Catalan
1 entries- apòdosi noun (the consequential clause in a conditional sentence)
Finnish
1 entries- ehtovirkkeen päätöslause noun (the consequential clause in a conditional sentence)
French
1 entries- apodose noun (the consequential clause in a conditional sentence)
Greek
1 entries- απόδοση noun (the consequential clause in a conditional sentence)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- جزا noun (the consequential clause in a conditional sentence)
Polish
1 entries- następnik noun (the consequential clause in a conditional sentence)
Portuguese
1 entries- apódose noun (the consequential clause in a conditional sentence)
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1943 Dornford Yates An Eye for a Tooth "If, after that, there is anything more to be done. . ." "Yes?" "You’d ----well better do it," said Forecast. The meaning with which he invested this blunt apodosis was unmistakable. Even I, an eavesdropper, found it most sinister: and I was not surprised when, after a little silence, the other turned on his heel and led the way to the road.
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1997 Angeliki Athanasiadou, René Dirven (eds) On Conditionals Again p. 309 by Hansjakob Seiler There is furthermore the claim that conditionals necessarily involve a causal relation from protasis to apodosis. This may hold for the "conjunctive" types signalling a natural consequence from protasis to apodosis, but becomes increasingly unlikely as we approach disjunctive structures of the type. "May I perish most miserably, if I do not love Xanthia." does not mean "May I perish most miserably, because I do not love Xanthia."
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