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Mood: mood

Description

Mood is a feature that expresses modality and subclassifies finite verb forms. Uralic verbs are commonly suffixed for mood, sometimes mood is intermixed with tense and/or aspect in Uralic inflectional systems.

Ind: Indicative mood

Indicative is the neutral mood, usually without overt suffix. In some dictionaries an indicative form is also the dictionary entry form, i.e., lemma or.

Indicative examples

Cnd: Conditional mood

Conditional mood is used to express actions that would have taken place under some circumstances but they actually did not / do not happen.

Conditional examples

Pot: Potential mood

Potential mood is used to express uncertainty. See also: Aspect.

Potential examples

Jus: Jussive mood

The jussive mood expresses the desire that the action happens. Some uses of other moods may overlap with jussive, for example in Finnish potential inflection set.

Jussive examples

None in Finnish

Opt: Optative mood

Optative is mood for desired actions. For example Finnish optative is used in archaic literal style for proclamations.

Optative examples

Eventive mood

The eventive mood is used in Finnish grammars of the combination of potential and conditional moods. It has mainly archaic poetic significance and does not occur in the current treabanks. If it were it might be marked as Cnd|Pot?


Mood in other languages: [bg] [cs] [de] [el] [en] [es] [eu] [fa] [fi] [fr] [ga] [he] [hu] [it] [ja] [ko] [sv] [u]
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