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The mood of a verb used in ordinary, factual, or objective statements.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: grammar, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
a mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: indicative, declarative mood, declarative, common mood, fact mood
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: mood, mode, modality
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
43 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Albanian:
mënyra dëftore
— indicative mood
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Southern Altai:
јарталган
(ǰartalgan)
— indicative mood
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Arabic:
مَرْفُوع
(marfūʕ)
— indicative mood
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Azerbaijani:
xəbər şəkli
— indicative mood
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Belarusian:
абве́сны лад
(abvjésny lad)
— indicative mood
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Belarusian:
абвяшча́льны лад
(abvjaščálʹny lad)
— indicative mood
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Breton:
doare-disklêriañ
— indicative mood
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Bulgarian:
изяви́телно наклоне́ние
(izjavítelno naklonénie)
— indicative mood
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Chinese Mandarin:
直陳語氣 /直陈语气
(zhíchén yǔqì)
— indicative mood
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Czech:
oznamovací způsob
— indicative mood
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Dutch:
aantonende wijs
— indicative mood
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Dutch:
indicatief
— indicative mood
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Finnish:
indikatiivi
— indicative mood
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Finnish:
tositapa
— indicative mood
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French:
indicatif
— indicative mood
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Galician:
modo indicativo
— indicative mood
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German:
Indikativ
— indicative mood
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Greek:
οριστική
(oristikí)
— indicative mood
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Greenlandic:
oqaluinnamiut
— indicative mood
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Hungarian:
kijelentő mód
— indicative mood
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Icelandic:
framsöguháttur
— indicative mood
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Italian:
indicativo
— indicative mood
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Japanese:
直説法
(chokusetsu-hō)
— indicative mood
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Japanese:
直接法
(chokusetsu-hō)
— indicative mood
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Korean:
직설법
(jikseolbeop)
— indicative mood
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Lithuanian:
tiesioginė nuosaka
— indicative mood
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Macedonian:
и́сказен на́чин
(ískazen náčin)
— indicative mood
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Polish:
tryb orzekający
— indicative mood
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Polish:
tryb oznajmujący
— indicative mood
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Portuguese:
modo indicativo
— indicative mood
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Romanian:
mod indicativ
— indicative mood
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Romanian:
indicativ
— indicative mood
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Russian:
изъяви́тельное наклоне́ние
(izʺjavítelʹnoje naklonénije)
— indicative mood
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Slovak:
oznamovací spôsob
— indicative mood
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Slovene:
povedni naklon
— indicative mood
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Spanish:
modo indicativo
— indicative mood
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Swedish:
indikativ
— indicative mood
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Tagalog:
panaganong paturol
— indicative mood
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Turkish:
bildirme kipi
— indicative mood
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Turkish:
haber kipi
— indicative mood
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Ukrainian:
ді́йсний спо́сіб
(díjsnyj spósib)
— indicative mood
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Uyghur:
بايان رايى
(bayan rayi)
— indicative mood
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Welsh:
modd mynegol
— indicative mood