subjunctive

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The oratio obliqua would require dederit here, but such instances of the indicative being used for the subjunctive are by no means infrequent 3.

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  1. adjective Of, relating to, or being a mood of a verb used in some languages for contingent or hypothetical action, action viewed subjectively, or grammatically subordinate statements.
  2. noun The subjunctive mood.
  3. noun A subjunctive construction. See Usage Note at if.

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  • There used to be present and past subjunctive for all verbs, but the only vestige of the past subjunctive is the irrealis use of were that I referred to yesterday.
  • According to some linguists, the subjunctive is disappearing from American English. —  Epinions Recent Content for Home
  • When he tries to teach them the imperfect subjunctive, and creates long, seemingly strange sentences to illustrate the rule, the students bombard him with complaints: '
  • TRANSIERITIS.= In early Latin this would necessarily have been a perfect subjunctive, the future perfect indicative being transieritis with the second 'i' short; but after Ennius and Plautus the forms (like -erIs and -eris)_) are used indifferently, according to metrical necessity. —  The Last Poems of Ovid
  • To farm was an occupation easily parsed--subjunctive mood, past tense, passive voice! —  Deep Furrows
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  1. Late Latin subiūnctīvus, from Latin subiūnctus, past participle of subiungere, to subjoin, subordinate (translation of Greek hupotaktikos, subordinate, subjunctive); see subjoin.

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  1. = French subjonctif = Spanish subjuntivo = Portuguese subjunctivo = Italian subjuntivo, from Latin subjunctivus, serving to join, connecting, in grammar, sc. modus, the subjunctive mode, from subjungere, past participle subjunctus, add, join, subjoin: see subjoin.
 

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/səbˈdʒəŋktɪv/
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