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  2. Subjunctive mood in Spanish - Wikipedia

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    A verb in this mood is always distinguishable from its indicative counterpart by their different conjugation. The Spanish subjunctive mood descended from Latin, but is morphologically far simpler, having lost many of Latin's forms. Some of the subjunctive forms do not exist in Latin, such as the future, whose usage in modern-day Spanish ...

  3. Causative - Wikipedia

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    For example, mechanisms that do not change the length of the word (internal change, tone change) are shorter than those that lengthen it. Of those that lengthen it, shorter changes are more compact than longer. Verbs can be classified into four categories, according to how susceptible they are to morphological causativization: [7]: 4–11

  4. Spanish verbs - Wikipedia

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    As is typical of verbs in virtually all languages, Spanish verbs express an action or a state of being of a given subject, and like verbs in most Indo-European languages, Spanish verbs undergo inflection according to the following categories: Tense: past, present, or future; Number: singular or plural; Person: first, second or third

  5. Spanish grammar - Wikipedia

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    A Spanish verb has nine indicative tenses with more-or-less direct English equivalents: the present tense ('I walk'), the preterite ('I walked'), the imperfect ('I was walking' or 'I used to walk'), the present perfect ('I have walked'), the past perfect —also called the pluperfect— ('I had walked'), the future ('I will walk'), the future ...

  6. Grammaticalization - Wikipedia

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    In some verbs the process went further and produced irregular forms—cf. Spanish haré (instead of *haceré, 'I'll do') and tendré (not *teneré, 'I'll have'; the loss of e followed by epenthesis of d is especially common)—and even regular forms (in Italian, the change of the a in the stem cantare to e in canterò has affected the whole ...

  7. Autocausative verb - Wikipedia

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    [3] Some Spanish examples include "verbs of displacement," such as mudarse ' to move (in the sense of changing domicile) ', moverse ' to displace ', and desplazarse ' to displace ', and "internal bodily motion," such as agitarse ' to shake ', removerse ' to fidget ', revolverse ' toss and turn '.

  8. Irrealis mood - Wikipedia

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    In other languages, such as Spanish or French, verbs have a specific conditional inflection. This applies also to some verbs in German, in which the conditional mood is conventionally called Konjunktiv II, differing from Konjunktiv I. Thus, the conditional version of "John eats if he is hungry" is: English: John would eat if he were hungry

  9. Mechanism of action - Wikipedia

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    In some literature articles, the terms "mechanism of action" and "mode of action" are used interchangeably, typically referring to the way in which the drug interacts and produces a medical effect. However, in actuality, a mode of action describes functional or anatomical changes, at the cellular level, resulting from the exposure of a living ...