When you pass «suao» a proposition, does it mean something close to "juoq"?

[acotis]

Consider the sentence "Suao hê nûo nháo dùo sa bıaq daqbuaı" = "It's important that they sleep for long a long enough time". Does this mean...

1. They really ought to sleep for a long enough time.
2. They do sleep for a long enough time, and this fact plays an important role in something else (maybe their good test scores or something).

?

[robintown]

I also had this thought recently when translating a thing, and decided that the jủoq sense of the English word should be left to jủoq, and sủao should be the second thing

[acotis]

That was my instinct too.

[xorxes]

I would say 2, indicative mood of the subclause, but you could also get something like 1 with something like a subjunctive mood: "Suao jûoq nûo nháo dùo sa bıaq daqbuaı", so not just that they should do it, but it's important that they do.

[acotis]

That Toaq feels different to me than the English -- I think if suao simply means ___ is true and important then "Suao jûoq nûo nháo dùo sa bıaq daqbuaı" just means "They should sleep for a long enough time, and this is important". (Maybe they didn't sleep for a long enough time, and you're trying to catch them doing something they shouldn't be doing, so it's important that they should have. But it could still be a very weak "should".)