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Subjunctive mood

noun
1.
A mood that represents an act or state (not as a fact but) as contingent or possible.  Synonym: subjunctive.





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"Subjunctive mood" Quotes from Famous Books



... singular of the passive may be used impersonally, as in Latin. The verb may be made negative through its whole conjugation, by means of inserting the particle la in the indicative, qui in the imperative which then takes the termination of the subjunctive mood, and by means of no in the subjunctive and infinitive moods, ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 5 • Robert Kerr


Words linked to "Subjunctive mood" :   mood, mode, modality


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