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Pages in category "Grammatical moods" The following 45 pages are in this category, out of 45 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
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.).
Tense–aspect–mood (commonly abbreviated tam in linguistics) or tense–modality–aspect (abbreviated as tma) is an important group of grammatical categories, which are marked in different ways by different languages.
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 .
The subjunctive (also known as conjunctive in some languages) is a grammatical mood, a feature of an utterance that indicates the speaker's attitude toward it.Subjunctive forms of verbs are typically used to express various states of unreality such as wish, emotion, possibility, judgment, opinion, obligation, or action that has not yet occurred; the precise situations in which they are used ...
Grammatical moods (45 P) M. Modal logic (6 C, 50 P) Modal metaphysics (1 C, 19 P) N. Necessity (2 C, 10 P) P. Possibility (1 C, 11 P) Pages in category "Linguistic ...
If these verbal markers of modality are obligatory in a language, they are called mood markers. Well-known examples of moods in some European languages are referred to as subjunctive, conditional, and indicative as illustrated below with examples from French, all three with the verb avoir 'to have'.
This is a list of grammatical cases as they are used by various inflectional languages that have declension. This list will mark the case, when it is used, an example ...