Get to know Subjunctive better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like mood or mode.
Subjunctive meaning
Inflected to indicate that an act or state of being is possible, contingent or hypothetical, and not a fact.
Using Subjunctive
- The main meaning on this page is: Inflected to indicate that an act or state of being is possible, contingent or hypothetical, and not a fact.
- Useful related words include: mood, mode, modality, subjunctive mood.
- In the example corpus, subjunctive often appears in combinations such as: the subjunctive, present subjunctive, subjunctive the.
Context around Subjunctive
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 7 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Subjunctive
- In this selection, "subjunctive" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 20.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, present, perfect, imperfect, classes, scaling and class stand out and add context to how "subjunctive" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a different subjunctive class and addition four subjunctive classes differ. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "subjunctive" sits close to words such as aachen, abayomi and abbots, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with subjunctive
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
I could go on for hours about subjunctive scaling. (9 words)
Independently, it is usually translated as the potential subjunctive. (9 words)
However, the mandative subjunctive has always been used in BrE. (10 words)
Subjunctive scaling with the TP might be required to rid the polygons, declarative fraction with three passes bein' a congruent figure if'n I cosine the arithmetic mean with regards to the probability of a second sit-down session - allegedly'. (40 words)
Gowers (1973), p. x Fraser noted that though Gowers had said approvingly in 1954 that the use of the subjunctive was dying out, it was now, under the influence of American writing, making an unwelcome reappearance in English usage. (39 words)
Most are conjugated identically to the corresponding indicative classes; indicative and subjunctive are distinguished by the fact that a verb in a given indicative class will usually belong to a different subjunctive class. (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
Pluperfect subjunctive The pluperfect subjunctive is to the perfect subjunctive as the imperfect subjunctive is to the present subjunctive.
In addition, four subjunctive classes differ from the corresponding indicative classes, two "special subjunctive" classes with differing suffixes and two "varying subjunctive" classes with root ablaut reflecting the PIE perfect.
Perfect subjunctive Like the imperfect subjunctive, the perfect subjunctive is largely used in subordinate clauses.
Most are conjugated identically to the corresponding indicative classes; indicative and subjunctive are distinguished by the fact that a verb in a given indicative class will usually belong to a different subjunctive class.
Other forms occur with negation and the subjunctive, as in sisomi: : :'I am not reading/ I don't read' Other instances of this change of the final vowel include the subjunctive in -e.
Present subjunctive The present subjunctive may be used to assert many things.
The difference between the present indicative and the present subjunctive tense is that the subjunctive can be formed by both perfective and imperfective verbs.
I could go on for hours about subjunctive scaling.
Subjunctive scaling with the TP might be required to rid the polygons, declarative fraction with three passes bein' a congruent figure if'n I cosine the arithmetic mean with regards to the probability of a second sit-down session - allegedly'.
Additional archaic forms include art, wast, wert, and occasionally beest (as a subjunctive ).
Additionally, the perfective form of pherno (used for the subjunctive voice and also for the future tense) is also phero.
As with the indicative subjunctive, active endings are removed, and passive endings are added.
Categories Tocharian verbs are conjugated in the following categories: *Mood: indicative, subjunctive, optative, imperative.
Conjugated verb forms agree with their subject in terms of person, number, and (in the case of past tense and subjunctive/conditional forms) gender.
For example: ** The Latin pluperfect indicative became a conditional in Sicilian, and an imperfect subjunctive in Spanish.
Gowers (1973), p. x Fraser noted that though Gowers had said approvingly in 1954 that the use of the subjunctive was dying out, it was now, under the influence of American writing, making an unwelcome reappearance in English usage.
His belief via the method of the courtroom satisfies the four subjunctive conditions, but his faith-based belief does not.
However, in popular speech the infinitive after a putea is also increasingly replaced by the subjunctive.
However, the mandative subjunctive has always been used in BrE.
Independently, it is usually translated as the potential subjunctive.
Common combinations with subjunctive
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: