Mood: mood
We apply the features Ind, Cnd and Imp in Hungarian.
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
- [hu] Az egyetemen tanulsz. “You study at the university.”
Imp: imperative
Examples
- [hu] Tanulj az egyetemen! “Study at the university!”
Cnd: conditional
Examples
- [hu] Ha okos lennék, az egyetemen tanulnék. “If I were smart I would study at the university.”
Pot: potential
The action of the verb is possible but not certain.
This mood corresponds to the modal verbs can, might, be able to.
In Hungarian, it can be also combined with imperative and conditional,
leading to multivalues Cnd,Pot and Imp,Pot.
Examples
- [hu] Tanulhatok az egyetemen. “I can study at the university.”
- [hu] Tanulhatnék az egyetemen. “I could study at the university.”
Mood=Cnd,Pot - [hu] hogy az egyetemen tanulhasson “so that you can study at the university”
Mood=Imp,Pot
Mood in other languages: [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]