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subjunctive
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sub·junc·tive  (sb-jngktv)
adj.
Of, relating to, or being a mood of a verb used in some languages for contingent or hypothetical action, action viewed subjectively, or grammatically subordinate statements.
n.
1. The subjunctive mood.
2. A subjunctive construction. See Usage Note at if.

[Late Latin subinctvus, from Latin subinctus, past participle of subiungere, to subjoin, subordinate (translation of Greek hupotaktikos, subordinate, subjunctive); see subjoin.]

subjunctive [səbˈdʒʌŋktɪv]
adj
(Linguistics / Grammar) Grammar denoting a mood of verbs used when the content of the clause is being doubted, supposed, feared true, etc., rather than being asserted. The rules for its use and the range of meanings it may possess vary considerably from language to language. In the following sentence, were is in the subjunctive I'd think very seriously about that if I were you Compare indicative
n
(Linguistics / Grammar) Grammar
a.  the subjunctive mood
b.  a verb in this mood Abbreviation subj
[via Late Latin subjunctīvus, from Latin subjungere to subjoin]
subjunctively  adv
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.subjunctive - a mood that represents an act or state (not as a fact but) as contingent or possible
modality, mood, mode - verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker
Adj.1.subjunctive - relating to a mood of verbs; "subjunctive verb endings"
grammar - the branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (and sometimes also deals with semantics)
Translations
subjunctive [səbˈdʒʌŋktɪv]
A. ADJsubjuntivo
subjunctive moodmodo m subjuntivo
B. Nsubjuntivo m
the verb is in the subjunctiveel verbo está en subjuntivo
subjunctive [səbˈdʒʌŋktɪv]
adjsubjonctif/ive
nsubjonctif m
in the subjunctive → au subjonctif
subjunctive
adjkonjunktivisch; the subjunctive verb/mood/formder Konjunktiv
n (= mood, verb)Konjunktiv m
subjunctive [səbˈdʒʌŋktɪv] (Gram)
1. adjcongiuntivo/a
2. ncongiuntivo
in the subjunctive → al congiuntivo


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These are the ritual markers of a subjunctively shared universe.
At the beginning of Political Justice, Godwin still hopes for a positive function for political institutions, but he expresses his hope subjunctively and goes on to ground it paradoxically in instances of government's power of "giv[ing] substance and permanence to our errors.
Finally rather than construct a narrative of these transformations based just on a dualistic bifurcation into dominating, external subjects (the Chinese, the corrupt PNG elite) and their captured, local objects (landowners and their resources), these processes can also be understood to be providing the landowners, or some of them at least, with the 'opportunity to live subjunctively as neither subject nor object of history but as both, at one and the same time' (Taussig, 1993:255).
 
 
 
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