Indicative Mood

Definition: Indicative Mood

Indicative Mood

Noun

1. A mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact.

Specialty Definition: Indicative mood

Among the Indo-European languages, the indicative mood is the grammatical mood of a verb that distinguishes ordinary statements; if it is not a command, a wish, or a hypothetical statement, the indicative mood is used. The indicative mood is the most common grammatical mood; each verb in this paragraph stands in the indicative mood. Grammatical mood is distinct from grammatical tense; in English verbs remain in the indicative mood, regardless of whether they spoke in the preterite, are being used in the present tense, or will be used in the future tense. Among the Indo-European languages, it contrasts with the:

imperative mood, used for commands;
subjunctive mood, used for hypothetical statements; and the
optative mood, used for wishes and requests.

Not every Indo-European language has each of these moods, but the most conservative ones such as Ancient Greek, Sanskrit, and Lithuanian retain them all.

In Indo-European languages, it is not customary to speak of a negative mood, used for negation, since in these languages negation is originally a particle that can be applied to a verb in any of these moods. In some non-Indo-European languages, the negative mood counts as a separate mood. It could be argued that Modern English has joined the ranks of these languages, since negation in the indicative mood requires the use of an auxiliary verb and a distinct syntax in most cases.

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Indicative Mood

Modern Translations: Indicative Mood

Language		Translations for "indicative mood"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		aantonende wys (indicative). (various references)

Dutch		indicatief (indicative), aantonende wĳs (indicative), aantonende wýs (indicative). (various references)

Esperanto		indikativo (indicative). (various references)

German		Indikativ (indicative). (various references)

Hebrew		�"רך �"חווי. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		直説法 (direct method), 直接法 (direct method). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ちょくせつほう (direct method). (various references)

Manx		mod jeeragh. (various references)

Papiamen		indikativo (indicative). (various references)

Pig Latin		indicativeay oodmay

Swedish		indikativ (indicative). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Indicative Mood

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-d-d-e-i-i-i-m-n-o-o-t-v"
	-4 letters: decimation, dedication, dominative, indicative, medication, vindicated.
	-5 letters: addiction, addictive, advection, demantoid, deviation, dietician, dominated, evocation, idiomatic, indicated, invocated, iodinated, mediation, vindicate.
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