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  2. Grammatical mood - Wikipedia

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    e IPFV. TAM hina’aro like na DEIX vau SG tō DEF mei’a banana ra DEIX e hina’aro na vau tō mei’a ra IPFV.TAM like DEIX SG DEF banana DEIX 'I would like those bananas (you mentioned).' Mortlockese Mortlockese is an Austronesian language made up of eleven dialects over the eleven atolls that make up the Mortlock Islands in Micronesia. Various TAM markers are used in the language. Mood ...

  3. Category:Grammatical moods - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Pages in category "Grammatical moods" The following 45 pages are in this category, out of 45 total.

  4. Tense–aspect–mood - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Jussive mood - Wikipedia

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    li-yaf‘al-hu to-do. JUS. 3SG. MASC -it li-yaf‘al-hu to-do.JUS.3SG.MASC-it 'Have him do it.' A further use of this mood is in negative commands. لا تأخذ ذلك اللحم lā not ta’xudh take. JUS. 2SG. MASC dhālika that l-laḥm the-meat lā ta’xudh dhālika l-laḥm not take.JUS.2SG.MASC that the-meat 'Don't take that meat.' The jussive form is also used in past tense sentences ...

  6. Irrealis mood - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  7. Volitive modality - Wikipedia

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    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!").

  8. Category:Linguistic modality - Wikipedia

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    Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Grammatical moods (45 P) M. Modal logic (6 C, 50 P) Modal metaphysics (1 C ...

  9. Hypothetical mood - Wikipedia

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    Hypothetical mood (abbreviated HYP) is an epistemic grammatical mood found in some languages (for example Lakota) which indicates that while a statement is not actually true, it could easily have been. [1] For instance, in English, "You know you shouldn't play with knives!