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Conlangery #18: Mood

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Is Your Subjunctive Free?

In many places it should simply be considered a dependency marker. If you use a modal verb like must The verb the controlled verb Has to be in what's called the subjunctive Okay Yeah. But that is not normally that we think it's subjunctive working working in Indo-European languages. So yeah, that's not That I wouldn't call that a subjunctive either. It can also be used for moody kinds of things Oh, well, right. No one knows what it means Optatives mixed with subjunctive and futures all sorts of craziness by the time you get to play toe. It's all locked down.

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