Mood: mood
Mood
Mood is a feature that expresses modality and subclassifies finite verb forms. In Bulgarian there are three moods: Indicative, Imperative and Conditional.
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. Indicative covers all the 9 tenses and their passive forms in Bulgarian. It also covers the evidential forms.
Examples
- Следвам право в университета. / Sledvam pravo v universiteta “I study law at the University”.
- Той беше ходил в САЩ много пъти. / Toy beshe hodil v SASHT mnogo pati “He had been to the USA many times”.
Imp: imperative
The speaker uses imperative to order or ask the addressee to do the action of the verb. The forms in Bulgarian are synthetic.
Examples
- Купете хляб и сирене! / Kupete hlyab i sirene “Buy some bread and cheese!”
- Подай ми солта, моля! / Poday mi solta, molya “Pass me the salt, please!”
Cnd: conditional
The conditional mood is used to express actions that might happen under certain circumstances or that would have taken place but they actually did not / do not happen. It usually presupposes volition. The forms in Bulgarian are analytic.
Examples
- Бих дошъл, ако ме поканиш. / Bih doshal, ako me pokanish “I would come if you invite me.”
- Бих дошъл, ако имах възможност. / Bih doshal, ako imah vazmozhnost “I would come if I could.”
- Би трябвало добре да се подготвим за срещата. / Bi tryabvalo dobre da se podgotvim za sreshtata “We should prepare very well for the meeting.”
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]