Mood: mood
| Values: | Imp | Ind |
Mood expresses modality and subclassifies finite verb and auxiliary forms. Modern Greek morphologically distinguishes between two moods, Indicative and Imperative.
Participles and the so-called Infinitive of Modern Greek are assigned the tag Verb but are not defined for the Mood feature.
Ind: indicative
Indicative can be considered the default mood.
Examples
- Γράφω ένα γράμμα. “I write/I am writing a letter.”
Imp: imperative
Imperative is used to order or ask the addressee to do the action denoted by the verb.
Modern Greek verbs morphologically mark the imperfective and perfective singular and plural second person of the active and passive imperative.
Examples
- Imperfective: Γράφε το γράμμα! “Write (2nd, singular) the letter!”
- Imperfective: Γράφ(ε)τε το γράμμα! “Write (2nd, plural) the letter!”
- Perfective: Γράψε το γράμμα! “Write (2nd, singular) ) the letter!”
- Perfective: Γράψ(ε)τε το γράμμα! “Write (2nd, plural) the letter!”
- Perfective: Ντύσου! “Get dressed (2nd, singular)”.
- Perfective: Ντυθείτε! “Get dressed (2nd, plural)”.
Both the second and the third person of the imperative of perfective and imperfective passive and active verbs and be formed with να and the indicative mood.
Examples
- Imperfective: Να γράφεις το γράμμα! “Write (2nd, singular) the letter!”
- Imperfective: Να γράφετε το γράμμα! “Write (2nd, plural) the letter!”
- Perfective: Να γράψεις το γράμμα! “Write (2nd, singular) the letter!”
- Perfective: Να γράψετε το γράμμα! “Write (2nd, plural) the letter!”
- Imperfective: Να γράφει το γράμμα! “Write (3rd, singular) the letter!”
- Imperfective: Να γράφουν το γράμμα! “Write (3rd, plural) the letter!”
- Perfective: Να γράψει το γράμμα! “Write (3rd, singular) the letter!”
- Perfective: Να γράψουν το γράμμα! “Write (3rd, singular) the letter!”
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]