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1subjunctive mood — 1. The subjunctive mood, one of the great shifting sands of English grammar, is a verbal form or mood expressing wish or hypothesis in contrast to fact, and usually denotes what is imagined, wished, demanded, proposed, and so on. In modern… …
2subjunctive Grammar — [səb dʒʌŋ(k)tɪv] adjective denoting a mood of verbs expressing what is imagined or wished or possible. Compare with indicative. noun a verb in the subjunctive mood. Derivatives subjunctively adverb Origin C16: from Fr. subjonctif, ive or late L.… …
3Subjunctive mood — In grammar, the subjunctive mood (abbreviated sjv or sbjv) is a verb mood typically used in subordinate clauses to express various states of irreality such as wish, emotion, possibility, judgment, opinion, necessity, or action that has not yet… …
4subjunctive — UK [səbˈdʒʌŋktɪv] / US noun [singular] linguistics the form of a verb that is used for expressing doubts and wishes. For example, in the sentence I wish I were taller , were is in the subjunctive. The indicative is used for making statements and… …
5subjunctive — [səbˈdʒʌŋktɪv] noun [singular] linguistics the form of a verb that is used for expressing doubts and wishes. For example, in the sentence ‘I wish I were taller , ‘were is in the subjunctive. subjunctive adj …
6subjunctive — sub|junc|tive [ səb dʒʌŋktıv ] noun singular LINGUISTICS the form of a verb that is used for expressing doubts and wishes. For example, in the sentence I wish I were taller, were is in the subjunctive. The indicative is used for making statements …
7Old English subjunctive — The subjunctive mood is a flexible grammatical instrument for expressing different gradients in thought when referring to events that are not stated as fact. It is still used frequently in such languages as French, German and Spanish, and also in …
8Pipil grammar — This article provides a grammar sketch of the Nawat or Pipil language, an endangered language spoken by the Pipils of western El Salvador, belonging to the Nahua group within the Uto Aztecan language family. There also exists a brief typological… …
9Gramática pipil — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda Con Gramática pipil se refiere al conjunto de reglas y princios que regulan el uso del idioma pipil. Este artículo muestra un esquema gramatical del idioma náhuat o pipil, una lengua perteneciente a la familia… …
10were — Etymology: Middle English were (suppletive singular past subjunctive & 2d singular past indicative of been to be), weren (suppletive past plural of been), from Old English wǣre (singular past subjunctive & 2d singular past indicative of wesan to… …