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Subjunctive

adjective
1.
Relating to a mood of verbs.





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"Subjunctive" Quotes from Famous Books



... is the present subjunctive of the Old Fr. asoldre (absoudre), to absolve, used in the stereotyped phrase Dieus ...
— The Romance of Words (4th ed.) • Ernest Weekley
... a special use in the subjunctive (in all persons) to express a condition; and would has a special use (in all persons) to express ...
— The Century Handbook of Writing • Garland Greever
... senalara. A relic of the Latin pluperfect (in -aram, -eram), popularly confounded with the imperfect subjunctive. Its use is now somewhat archaic, and is restricted to relative clauses. See Ramsey's Spanish Grammar, H. Holt & ...
— Legends, Tales and Poems • Gustavo Adolfo Becquer
... sei}, subjunctive of dependent question, narrated indirectly, the tense remaining the same as would be used when stated directly: {Ist die Welt wirklich so rund?} ...
— Eingeschneit - Eine Studentengeschichte • Emil Frommel


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