audias

Audias is a Latin verb form belonging to the verb audire, “to hear.” It is the second-person singular present active subjunctive of the fourth-conjugation verb, and it appears in subordinate clauses where the speaker expresses potential, wish, command in indirect speech, or purpose.

Morphology and usage: as a present active subjunctive form, audias is built on the present stem aud- with the ending -ias for the second person singular. The full set of present subjunctive forms for audire is audiam, audias, audiat, audiamus, audiatis, audiant. In Latin, the present subjunctive is used after verbs of wishing, commanding, or fearing, and in clauses introduced by ut or ne to express purpose, result, or indirect commands. It also occurs in deliberative or conditional statements in certain stylistic contexts.

Examples of use: the form appears in constructions such as malo ut audias, meaning “I would prefer that you hear/listen,” or in indirect command phrases like rex te iussit ut audias, “the king ordered you that you should hear/listen.” In such sentences, audias conveys the sense of potential or obligation within a subordinate clause rather than a direct imperative.

In linguistic reference, audias is cited as the standard second-person singular present subjunctive form of audire. It illustrates how the Latin subjunctive marks mood and modality in subordinate clauses and how fourth-conjugation verbs adapt the characteristic subjunctive endings.