Mood: mood
| Values: | Des | Per | Imp | Irr | Dub | Jus |
Mood is used to signal modality.
Des: Desiderative
The desiderative mood is expressed with a suffix -tanẽ, which is a grammaticalization of the verb potar ‘to want’, probably followed by the particle -nẽ.
Examples
- erezaugtanẽpo ? “Do you want to take a bath?”
Per: Permissive
The permissive mood is marked with a prefix t-/ta-/te-.
Examples
- awurtar aho tapoʔo ɨŋam “I’m going upstairs to pick a sweet pea.”
- wane tepedʒapɨakaõwã wɨrakarakotɨ “You have to think a little about God.”
Imp: Imperative
Imp is a mood expressing an order given to one or more interlocutors. In Teko, it is marked with a prefix e- (2nd person singular) and pe- (2nd person plural).
Examples
- ekʷa wɨtʃɨ “Go away.”
- pekoar tapɨdʒam taike “Find me a home for me to come back.”
Irr: Irrealis
Irr is marked with suffixes itʃe-(ite-)/kuwa-.
Examples
- kobaitʃe tarawadʒanam , dapɨhɨgi maire “And if there was work, I would not take the post of mayor.”
- wanekuwa am zatarawadʒ “It would be nice if we worked here.”
Dub: Dubitative
Dub indicates if the statement is dubious. It is marked with a particle -enã.
Examples
- kʷienã oronekomuwe perupi orohotaruwe “One day, perhaps, we will go there.”
Jus: Jussive
Jus is a directive mood that expreses ordering, commanding, or exhorting. In Tekó, it is marked with -ko (appears together with imperative particles) , -nane (appears together with permissive particles), -na (with both imperative and permissive particles).
Examples
- derapɨdʒnane “Have a house then.”
Diffs
Prague Dependency Treebank
The PDT tagset does not distinguish Ptan from Plur and Coll from Sing,
therefore this distinction is not being made in the converted data.
Mood in other languages: [akk] [arr] [bej] [bg] [bm] [cs] [cy] [el] [eme] [en] [ess] [et] [fi] [fr] [ga] [gd] [gn] [gub] [hbo] [hu] [hy] [it] [jaa] [ky] [mdf] [myv] [pcm] [qpm] [qtd] [quc] [ru] [say] [sl] [sv] [tpn] [tr] [tt] [u] [ug] [uk] [urb] [urj]