subjunctively

sub·junc·tive (s

b-j

ngk

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.

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

(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

Noun	1.	subjunctive - a mood that represents an act or state (not as a fact but) as contingent or possible subjunctive mood 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. ADJ → subjuntivo
subjunctive mood → modo m subjuntivo

B. N → subjuntivo m
the verb is in the subjunctive → el verbo está en subjuntivo

subjunctive [səbˈdʒʌŋktɪv]

adj → subjonctif/ive

n → subjonctif m
in the subjunctive → au subjonctif

subjunctive

adj → konjunktivisch; the subjunctive verb/mood/form → der Konjunktiv

n (= mood, verb) → Konjunktiv m

subjunctive [səbˈdʒʌŋktɪv] (Gram)

1. adj → congiuntivo/a

2. n → congiuntivo
in the subjunctive → al congiuntivo

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capias caveat emptor Caveating Conjunctive mood counterfactual Godspeed IF indicative modality mode mood on the qui vive Optatively ossia prosit requiescat scire facias should subj.	These are the ritual markers of a subjunctively shared universe. Ritual, the self, and sincerity by Seligman, Adam B. / Social Research 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. William Godwin and the ars rhetorica by Myers, Victoria / Studies in Romanticism 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). 'White Skins', 'Real People' and 'Chines' in some spatial ... by Wood, Mike / Oceania	subjective Subjective color subjective idealism subjective intension Subjective sensation subjectively subjectiveness subjectivism Subjectivist subjectivity Subjectless Subjectness Subjects Subjicible subjoin subjoinder subjoining subjugable subjugate subjugated subjugation Subjugator subjunction subjunctive subjunctive mood subjunctively subkiloton weapon subkingdom subkingdom Metazoa subkingdom Parazoa Sublapsarian sublapsarianism Sublapsary sublate Sublation Sublative sublease sublessee sublessor sublet sublethal Sublevation Sublibrarian sublicense sublieutenant Subligation Sublimable sublimate Sublimated sublimation Sublimatory	subjugate to subjugated subjugated subjugated to subjugates subjugates subjugating subjugating subjugation subjugation subjugation subjugations subjugations subjugations subjugator subjugator subjugators subjugators subjunction subjunction subjunctive subjunctive subjunctive subjunctive subjunctive Subjunctive mode subjunctive mood subjunctive mood Subjunctive Normal Subjunctive tense subjunctively subjunctives subjunctives Subkey Subkhankulovo subkiloton weapon subkiloton weapon subkingdom subkingdom subkingdom Metazoa subkingdom Parazoa subkingdoms subkingdoms SUBKR sublabial adhesion sublabial adhesion sublabial adhesion sublabial adhesion Sublabial scales sublacustrine sublacustrine channel SubLAN Sublanguage sublanguages SUBLANT SUBLANTFLT Sublapsarian Sublapsarianism Sublapsary SUBLATA Sublata causa tollitur effectus

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caveat emptor
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prosit
requiescat
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subj.

These are the ritual markers of a subjunctively shared universe.

Ritual, the self, and sincerity by Seligman, Adam B. / Social Research

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.

William Godwin and the ars rhetorica by Myers, Victoria / Studies in Romanticism

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).

'White Skins', 'Real People' and 'Chines' in some spatial ... by Wood, Mike / Oceania

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