subjunctive
/suhb-juhngk-tiv/US // səbˈdʒʌŋk tɪv //UK // (səbˈdʒʌŋktɪv) //
假设语气词,假设性语气,假定语气词,虚拟语气
Definitions
adj.形容词 adjective
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- : noting or pertaining to a mood or mode of the verb that may be used for subjective, doubtful, hypothetical, or grammatically subordinate statements or questions, as the mood of be in if this be treason.Compare imperative, indicative.
n.名词 noun
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- : the subjunctive mood or mode.
- : a verb in the subjunctive mood or form.
Examples
Yeah, yeah, Chris said; or something like that—not buying my equivocation and pressing on with the subjunctive.
Gossip in all its moods and tenses, from the vague indicative of mere innuendo, to the full subjunctive of open defamation!
The subjunctive is made by prefixing the word kishpin, meaning if.
For the imperative we use the subjunctive without conjunction and generally without subject.
The subjunctive, having but one form, in a sentence where there are two verbs is used as the second verb.
In the first and third (sometimes even in the second) it is replaced by the subjunctive.
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