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
- [fi] juoksen “I run”, tapamme “we kill”
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
- [fi] juoksisin “I would run”, tappaisimme “we would kill”
Pot
: Potential mood
Potential mood is used to express uncertainty. See also: Aspect.
Potential examples
- [fi] juossen “I might run”, tappanemme “we may kill”
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
- [fi] olla “to be”, ollos “may you be”
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
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