I. Simple sentences

§ 5. In simple sentences the synthetic forms of the Subjunctive Mood are more trequent than the analytical forms.

In simple sentences the Subjunctive Mood is used:

(1) to express wish (пожелание):

Long live the Soviet Army!

Да здравствует Советская Армия!

Success attend you!

Да сопутствует вам успех!

То express wish the analytical subjunctive with the mood auxiliary may is also used.

May success attend you!

Да сопутствует вам успех!

May you live long and die happy!

Желаю вам долго жить и быть счастливым до конца своих дней.

(2) to express an unreal wish:

If only he were free! (Galsworthy)

Если бы только он был свободен!

(3) in oaths and imprecations:

Manners be hanged!

К черту всякие церемонии!

Confound these flies!

Будь они прокляты, эти мухи!

(4) in some expressions:

Suffice it to say that...

Be it so!

God forbid!

Far be it from me.

(See the translation of these examples, § 2.)

The Subjunctive Mood in simple sentences is characteristic of literary style, except in oaths and imprecations, which belong to low colloquial style.