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: [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] [qpm] [qtd] [quc] [ru] [say] [sl] [sv] [tpn] [tr] [tt] [u] [ug] [uk] [urb] [urj]