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Mood: mood

Values: Ind Imp Jus Cnd Opt Pot

In Naija the Mood feature which expresses modality is a feature of auxiliaries and verbs.

The Ind and Imp values are only carried by instances of verbs following the English morphology, e.g teaches, teaching, taught…

Ind: indicative

Example

Imp: imperative

Example

Jus: jussive

The jussive is used to exhort someone to do something. It is carried by the auxiliary make.

Example

Cnd: conditional

The conditional mood is used to express conditions that are dependent upon a hypothetical circumstance.

Example

Nec: necessitative

The necessitative mood indicates the need to carry out a certain action.

Example

Opt: optative

The optative mood indicates a desire for something to occur.

Example

Pot: potential

The potential mood indicates the ability to carry out an action.

Example


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]