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user_gary

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India - Hindi
If you are, God forbid, HIV positive, it means you have AIDS. So this sentence might have been spoken by a doctor to a patient who just got to know that the test result was positive and not negative.

What does `God forbid' mean in this context?

Please explain it.
If you are, God forbid, HIV positive, it means you have AIDS. So this sentence might have been spoken by a doctor to a patient who just got to know that the test result was positive and not negative.

What does `God forbid' mean in this context?

Please explain it.

Hi user gary.

No, the doctor wouldn't yet know the test result.

"If you are, God forbid, HIV positive......." means "God forbid that this should be the case".

So the doctor is awaiting the test result and praying that it won't be positive.

LRV
It means that the doctor is calling upon God not make this happen.
The sentence is incorrect though, HIV does not equate to AIDS.
This is a relic of the subjunctive. "May God forbid that this happens".

If you are, and I fervently hope that you are not, HIV positive, it means ,,,
I think "God forbid" is said when someone is going to talk about a "if" situation. And the situation is a bad one for the listener. To not "brings bad luck" to the listener, the speaker would say "God forbid". It does not mean the speaker is superstitious, rather, a showing of good manners to the listener. That's how I see it.
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