subjunctive
Inflected to indicate that an act or state of being is possible, contingent or hypothetical, and not a fact.
Adjective
- Inflected to indicate that an act or state of being is possible, contingent or hypothetical, and not a fact.
Origin
From Latin subjunctīvus (“serving to join, connecting, in grammar applies to the subjunctive mode”), from subjungere (“to add, join, subjoin”), from sub (“under”) + jungere (“to join, yoke”). See join.
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Noun
- Ellipsis of subjunctive mood.
- A form in the subjunctive mood.
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imperfect subjunctive present subjunctive subjunctively subjunctive mode subjunctive mood subjunctivity subjunctivization subjunctivize