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In linguistics, grammatical mood is a grammatical feature of verbs, used for signaling modality. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] : 181 [ 3 ] That is, it is the use of verbal inflections that allow speakers to express their attitude toward what they are saying (for example, a statement of fact, of desire, of command, etc.).
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The term is used particularly when both clauses are in the present tense; however such sentences can be formulated with a variety of tenses/moods, as appropriate to the situation: If you don't eat for a long time, you become hungry. If the alarm goes off, there's a fire somewhere in the building.
There are indicative mood forms for, in addition to the future-as-viewed-from-the-past usage of the conditional mood form, the following combinations: future; an imperfective past tense–aspect combination whose form can also be used in contrary-to-fact "if" clauses with present reference; a perfective past tense–aspect combination whose ...
The potential mood (abbreviated POT) is a mood of probability indicating that, in the opinion of the speaker, the action or occurrence is considered likely. It is used in many languages, including in Finnish , [ 16 ] Japanese , [ 17 ] and Sanskrit (including its ancestor Proto-Indo-European ), [ 18 ] and in the Sami languages .
Volitive moods are a category of grammatical moods that are used to express volitive modality. Examples are the optative , desiderative and imprecative moods . [ 1 ] However, many languages (like English) have other ways to express volitive modality, for example modal verbs (" Wish that you were here!", " May he live forever!").
Kunyjarta-lu Woman- ERG mara hand ku-rnu CAUS - PST parnu-nga 3SG - GEN warnta stick pirri-lpunyjarri, dig- INS kurni-rnu throw- PST kunyjarta woman kurri teenager Kunyjarta-lu mara ku-rnu parnu-nga warnta pirri-lpunyjarri, kurni-rnu kunyjarta kurri Woman-ERG hand CAUS-PST 3SG-GEN stick dig-INS throw-PST woman teenager ‘(The) woman caused her digging stick to be in (the) hand (i.e. picked up ...
The deductive mood is an epistemic grammatical mood that indicates that the truth of the statement was deduced from other information, rather than being directly known. [1] In English, deductive mood is often indicated by the word must, which is also used for many other purposes. By contrast, some other languages have special words or verb ...