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Mood expressing an action or state which is hypothetical or anticipated rather than actual, including wishes and commands.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: grammar, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: conjunctive, conjunctive mode, conjunctive mood, subjunctive, subjunctive mode
Antonyms: none provided
a mood that represents an act or state (not as a fact but) as contingent or possible
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: subjunctive
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: mood, mode, modality
From subjunctive (from Latin subjunctivus, from sub- (“under”) + junctus (“joined”), perfect passive participle of jungere (“to join”) + adjective suffix -ivus) + mood (from Latin modus).
Across languages
Translations
77 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Albanian:
mënyra lidhore
— subjunctive mood
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Arabic:
حالَةُ النَّصْبِ
(ḥālatu n-naṣbi)
— subjunctive mood
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Armenian:
ըղձական եղանակ
(əġjakan eġanak)
— subjunctive mood
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Belarusian:
умо́ўны лад
(umówny lad)
— subjunctive mood
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Breton:
doare-sujañ
— subjunctive mood
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Bulgarian:
усло́вно наклоне́ние
(uslóvno naklonénie)
— subjunctive mood
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Catalan:
mode subjuntiu
— subjunctive mood
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Catalan:
subjuntiu
— subjunctive mood
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Chinese Mandarin:
虛擬語氣 /虚拟语气
(xūnǐ yǔqì)
— subjunctive mood
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Czech:
konjunktiv
— subjunctive mood
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Czech:
subjunktiv
— subjunctive mood
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Danish:
konjunktiv
— subjunctive mood
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Dutch:
aanvoegende wijs
— subjunctive mood
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Dutch:
bijvoegende wijs
— subjunctive mood
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Dutch:
conjunctief
— subjunctive mood
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Dutch:
subjunctief
— subjunctive mood
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Esperanto:
subjunktivo
— subjunctive mood
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Estonian:
konjunktiiv
— subjunctive mood
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Faroese:
hugsháttur
— subjunctive mood
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Finnish:
konjunktiivi
— subjunctive mood
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Finnish:
subjunktiivi
— subjunctive mood
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French:
subjonctif
— subjunctive mood
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German:
Konjunktiv
— subjunctive mood
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German:
Möglichkeitsform
— subjunctive mood
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German:
Subjunktiv
— subjunctive mood
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Greek:
υποτακτική
(ypotaktikí)
— subjunctive mood
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Ancient Greek:
ὑποτακτική
(hupotaktikḗ)
— subjunctive mood
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Hungarian:
kötőmód
— subjunctive mood
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Hungarian:
felszólító mód
— subjunctive mood
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Icelandic:
viðtengingarháttur
— subjunctive mood
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Interlingua:
subjunctivo
— subjunctive mood
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Irish:
modh foshuiteach
— subjunctive mood
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Italian:
congiuntivo
— subjunctive mood
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Japanese:
仮定法
(kateihō)
— subjunctive mood
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Japanese:
接続法
(setsuzokuhō)
— subjunctive mood
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Korean:
가정법
(gajeongbeop)
— subjunctive mood
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Latin:
modus coniunctivus
— subjunctive mood
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Latin:
modus adiunctivus
— subjunctive mood
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Latvian:
konjunktīvs
— subjunctive mood
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Lithuanian:
tariamoji nuosaka
— subjunctive mood
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Lithuanian:
konjunktyvas
— subjunctive mood
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Macedonian:
погодбен начин
(pogodben način)
— subjunctive mood
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Macedonian:
конјунктив
(konjunktiv)
— subjunctive mood
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Norman:
subjonctif
— subjunctive mood
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Norwegian Bokmål:
konjunktiv
— subjunctive mood
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Persian:
التزامی
(eltezâmi)
— subjunctive mood
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Persian:
وجه پیرو
(vajh-e peyro)
— subjunctive mood
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Polish:
tryb łączący
— subjunctive mood
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Portuguese:
modo conjuntivo
— subjunctive mood
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Portuguese:
conjuntivo
— subjunctive mood
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Portuguese:
modo subjuntivo
— subjunctive mood
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Portuguese:
subjuntivo
— subjunctive mood
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Romanian:
conjunctiv
— subjunctive mood
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Russian:
сослага́тельное наклоне́ние
(soslagátelʹnoje naklonénije)
— subjunctive mood
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Russian:
конъюнкти́в
(konʺjunktív)
— subjunctive mood
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Russian:
субъюнкти́в
(subʺjunktív)
— subjunctive mood
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Scottish Gaelic:
modh fo-leantach
— subjunctive mood
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Serbo-Croatian:
ко̏њунктӣв
— subjunctive mood
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Serbo-Croatian:
везни начин
— subjunctive mood
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Serbo-Croatian:
kȍnjunktīv
— subjunctive mood
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Serbo-Croatian:
vezni način
— subjunctive mood
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Slovak:
konjunktív
— subjunctive mood
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Slovene:
pogojni naklon
— subjunctive mood
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Slovene:
konjunktiv
— subjunctive mood
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Slovene:
subjunktiv
— subjunctive mood
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Spanish:
modo subjuntivo
— subjunctive mood
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Spanish:
subjuntivo
— subjunctive mood
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Spanish:
conjuntivo
— subjunctive mood
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Swedish:
konjunktiv
— subjunctive mood
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Tagalog:
panaganong pasakali
— subjunctive mood
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Turkish:
istek kipi
— subjunctive mood
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Turkish:
dilek kipi
— subjunctive mood
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Turkish:
subjonktif
— subjunctive mood
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Ukrainian:
умо́вний спо́сіб
(umóvnyj spósib)
— subjunctive mood
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Vietnamese:
thức giả định
— subjunctive mood
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Welsh:
modd dibynnol
— subjunctive mood
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Yiddish:
קאָניונקטיוו
(konyunktiv)
— subjunctive mood
