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A form in the subjunctive mood.
adjective
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(grammar, of a verb) Inflected to indicate that an act or state of being is possible, contingent or hypothetical, and not a fact.
noun
definition
(grammar) Mood expressing an action or state which is hypothetical or anticipated rather than actual, including wishes and commands.
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Examples of subjunctive in a Sentence
As a reward, I finally understand the subjunctive!
For example, at level 3 we learned some of the rules for the subjunctive and only the present and past subjunctive.
In the present indicative and subjunctive many verbs in it takethe inchoative form already described, by lengthening the radical in the three persons of the singular and in the third person of the plural by means of the syllable esc (isc).
You'll learn about a new form of the verb called the subjunctive, some useful motoring terms and about exchanging currencies.
Apparently, you don't use the imperfect subjunctive in day-to-day conversation.
The most recent works bearing on Old Latin syntax, are Sjogren, Zum Gebrauch des Futurums im Altlateinischen (1906); Lindsay, Syntax of Plautus (1907); Sonnenschein, The Unity of the Latin Subjunctive (1910).
Thomas, entitled A catalogue raisonne of the Subjunctive in Plautus, in support of the theory of the unity of origin of the Latin Subjunctive, is announced as in preparation.
It is made up of the imperfect subjunctive of the auxiliary verbs followed by the past participle.
As a reward, I finally understand the subjunctive !
To see this, we need to make a short digression to consider the truth conditions for subjunctive conditionals.
The subjunctive mood is used to express a wish, a command, or a condition contrary to fact.
To make a request more polite we might use the subjunctive form of the verb.
The subjunctive tenses are used to describe feeling, emotions and moods not necessarily linked to facts and reality.
The subjunctive mode is used extensively, but its use is defined by reasonable rules.
In fact, however, the Homeric subjunctive is almost quite " regular," though the rule which it obeys is a different one from the Attic. It may be summed up by saying that the subjunctive takes or when the indicative has o or and not otherwise.
The verb has four tenses in the indicative, one in the subjunctive, and one in the imperative.
One might expect a pluperfect subjunctive to show that this is an unfulfilled possibility.
It will be evident that under this rule the perfect and first aorist subjunctive should always take a short vowel; and this accordingly is the case, with very few exceptions.
The infinitive is not found; as in Greek, Rumanian and Bulgarian, it is replaced by the subjunctive with a particle.