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Subjunctive

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Word	Definition
subjunctive moodnoun	(grammar) Mood expressing an action or state which is hypothetical or anticipated rather than actual, including wishes and commands.

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Word	Definition
subjunctive moodnoun	(grammar) Mood expressing an action or state which is hypothetical or anticipated rather than actual, including wishes and commands.
jussivenoun	(grammar, uncountable and countable) The jussive mood, a verb inflection used to indicate a command, permission or agreement with a request; an instance of a verb so inflected.
pluperfectnoun	(grammar) Pertaining to action completed before another action or event in the past, past perfect.
volitivenoun	Of or pertaining the will or volition.
conditionalsnoun	(grammar) A conditional sentence; a statement that depends on a condition being true or false.
potentialnoun	A currently unrealized ability (with the most common adposition being to).
volitional	(comparable) Done by conscious, personal choice; not based on external principles; not accidental.
desiderativenoun	(linguistics, grammar) A verbal mood expressing the desire to carry out an act, found in languages such as Ancient Greek and Sanskrit; the optative.
realisnoun	(grammar) A category of grammatical moods, the most common of which is the indicative mood, that indicate that something actually is, or is not, the case.
dynamic	Changing; active; in motion.
contingentnoun	An event which may or may not happen; that which is unforeseen, undetermined, or dependent on something in the future.
potestative	(law) of a condition in a legal contract: being completely controlled by exactly one of the parties to the contract
nominativenoun	The nominative case.
stative	(grammar) Of a verb: asserting, generally intransitively, that a subject has a particular property or status.
ventivenoun	(grammar) Synonym of venitive.
eventive	(grammar) That denotes an event.
optativenoun	(grammar) A mood of verbs found in some languages (e.g. Sanskrit, Old Prussian, Tamil, and Ancient Greek, but not English), used to express a wish.
inflectable	(linguistics) That can be inflected.
mightnoun	(uncountable) The ability to do something.
possibilistic	(mathematics) Of, pertaining to or derived using possibility.