Mood: mood
Mood is a feature that expresses modality and subclassifies finite verb forms.
Ind: indicative
The indicative can be considered the default mood. A verb in indicative merely states that something happens, has happened or will happen, without adding any attitude of the speaker.
Examples
- [fi] minä sanon “I say”
Imp: imperative
The speaker uses imperative to order or ask the addressee to do the action of the verb.
Examples
- [fi] kypsennä uunissa “fry in the oven”
Cnd: conditional
The conditional mood is used to express actions that would have taken place under some circumstances but they actually did not / do not happen.
Examples
- [fi] tarvistisimme tilaa “we would need space”
Pot: potential
The action of the verb is likely but not certain.
Examples
- [fi] talo valmistunee “the house will likely be completed”
Opt: optative
The Finnish optative (or second imperative) is archaic, mainly appearing in poetry, and used in suppletion with the first imperative. In Universal Dependencies, the optative occurs in the FTB data but not in TDT and PUD.
Examples
- [fi] kävellös “you shall walk” (active voice 2nd person singular present optative of kävellä “to walk”; the corresponding first imperative form is kävele)
- [fi] ällös kävele “don’t walk” (negative optative of kävellä “to walk”; the corresponding first imperative form is älä kävele)
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]