Mood: mood
Mood is a feature that expresses modality and subclassifies finite verb forms.
Ind: indicative
The indicative can be considered the default mood. A verb in indicative merely states that something happens, has happened or will happen, without adding any attitude of the speaker.
Examples
- idūkūšu “They defeated him.”
Imp: imperative
The speaker uses imperative to order or ask the addressee to do the action of the verb.
Examples
- ṣalmu šuātu hulliq “Destroy this monument!”
- šumka itti šumiya šuṭur “Write your name with my name!”
Prec: precative
The precative, a polite request or encouragement, is formed with the combination of the particle lū and the preterite form of a verb.
Examples
- līrur “may he curse”
- luhalliqū “may they destroy”
Proh: prohibitive
The prohibitive expresses negative commands and combines the negation lā with the present tense. Optionally, the particle lū may be added to stress the command.
Examples
- lā tapaššiṭ “do not erase”
- lā tunakkar “do not remove”
- lū lā eṣṣidi “may he not harvest”
Mood in other languages: [ab] [akk] [arr] [bej] [bg] [bm] [cs] [cy] [el] [eme] [en] [es] [ess] [et] [fi] [fr] [ga] [gd] [gn] [gub] [hbo] [hu] [hy] [it] [jaa] [ka] [ky] [mdf] [myv] [pcm] [ps] [qpm] [qtd] [quc] [ru] [say] [sl] [sv] [tpn] [tr] [tt] [u] [ug] [uk] [urb] [urj] [xcl]