Mood: mood
| Values: | Imp | Opt | Pot |
Mood is a feature that expresses modality and subclassifies finite verb forms.
Imp: imperative
The speaker uses imperative to order or ask the addressee to do the action of the verb.
Examples
- bak ʔabk -i -n / w= hi “Take the lamb like that!”
Opt: optative
Expresses exclamations for a wish like “May you have a long life!” or “If only I were rich!” In Beja the negative optative is compulsory in dependent clauses.
Examples
- harʔiːsiːsi bi= t- jʔ -a =heːb =aj “It must not come to me from behind!”
Pot: Potential
The Potential form expresses epistemic modalities of inference or near-certainty.
Examples
- hinin rhisat =oːk ʔeːnaj “We are going to show you!”
Mood in other languages: [ab] [akk] [arr] [bej] [bg] [bm] [cs] [cy] [el] [eme] [en] [es] [ess] [et] [fi] [fr] [ga] [gd] [gn] [gub] [hbo] [hu] [hy] [it] [jaa] [ka] [ky] [mdf] [myv] [pcm] [ps] [qpm] [qtd] [quc] [ru] [say] [sl] [sv] [tpn] [tr] [tt] [u] [ug] [uk] [urb] [urj] [xcl]