In linguistics, grammatical mood is a grammatical feature of verbs, used for signaling modality.: 181  That is, it is the use of verbal inflections that...

In linguistics, irrealis moods (abbreviated IRR) are the main set of grammatical moods that indicate that a certain situation or action is not known to...

A realis mood (abbreviated REAL) is a grammatical mood which is used principally to indicate that something is a statement of fact; in other words, to...

The optative mood (/ˈɒptətɪv/ OP-tə-tiv or /ɒpˈteɪtɪv/ op-TAY-tiv; abbreviated OPT) is a grammatical mood that indicates a wish or hope regarding a given...

Tense–aspect–mood (commonly abbreviated tam in linguistics) or tense–modality–aspect (abbreviated as tma) is an important group of grammatical categories...

languages are mostly like English in not having grammatical evidentiality, but do have a conditional mood which has three uses: conditions, future-in-the-past...

grammatical mood of verbs for issuing orders, commanding, or exhorting (within a subjunctive framework). English verbs are not marked for this mood....

The deductive mood is an epistemic grammatical mood that indicates that the truth of the statement was deduced from other information, rather than being...

In linguistics, a grammatical category or grammatical feature is a property of items within the grammar of a language. Within each category there are...

The imperative mood is a grammatical mood that forms a command or request. The imperative mood is used to demand or require that an action be performed...

The assumptive mood (abbreviated ASS) is an epistemic grammatical mood found in some languages, which indicates that the statement is assumed to be true...

Dependence of moods and tenses Aspect in Standard Chinese Grammatical conjugation Grammatical tense Grammatical mood Nominal TAM (tense–aspect–mood) Tense–aspect–mood...

depending on grammatical mood. The language grammatically distinguishes three numbers: singular, dual, and plural. There is no marking of grammatical gender...

Hypothetical mood (abbreviated HYP) is an epistemic grammatical mood found in some languages (for example Lakota) which indicates that while a statement...

The inferential mood (abbreviated INFER or INFR) is used to report a nonwitnessed event without confirming it, but the same forms also function as admiratives...

subjunctive (also known as the conjunctive in some languages) is a grammatical mood, a feature of an utterance that indicates the speaker's attitude toward...

Dubitative mood (abbreviated DUB) is an epistemic grammatical mood found in some languages, that indicates that the statement is dubious, doubtful, or...

The necessitative mood (abbreviated NEC) is a grammatical mood found in Turkish and Armenian, which combines elements of both the cohortative (which is...

every verb. Verbs may inflect for grammatical categories such as person, number, gender, case, tense, aspect, mood, voice, possession, definiteness, politeness...

orders given. Deontic moods are a category of grammatical moods that are used to express deontic modality. An example for a deontic mood is the imperative...

Deliberative mood (abbreviated DEL) is a grammatical mood that asks whether the speaker should do something, e. g. "Shall I go to the market?" The Afar...

the construction. The aggressive has playfully been described as a grammatical mood by the inventor of the term, but the construction operates on the syntactical...

The injunctive mood is a grammatical mood in Sanskrit that was characterized by secondary endings but no augment, and usually looked like an augmentless...

Speculative mood (abbreviated SPEC) is an epistemic grammatical mood found in some languages, which indicates that the utterance is based on speculation...

the common tense-mood marker. Hindi-Urdu has 3 grammatical aspectsː Habitual, Perfective, and Progressive; and 5 grammatical moodsː Indicative, Presumptive...

The permissive mood is a grammatical mood that indicates that the action is permitted by the speaker. It is one of the optative mood forms that survived...

In linguistics, the frustrative mood (abbreviated FRUS or FRUSTR) is a grammatical feature in some languages, such as Chorote and Mẽbengokre, that indicates...

The conditional mood (abbreviated cond) is a grammatical mood used in conditional sentences to express a proposition whose validity is dependent on some...

be a good chess player"), particular grammatical moods on verbs, the epistemic moods, or a specific grammatical element, such as an affix (Tuyuca: -hīyi...

The benedictive mood is a grammatical mood found in Sanskrit. It expresses a blessing or wish, such as found in the English expressions "long live the...