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Intro to Subjunctive Mood. Stage 23/24. What is SUBJUNCTIVE?. The Subjunctive is one of the three different moods a Latin verb can take. The two other moods are the Indicative and the Imperative .
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Intro to Subjunctive Mood Stage 23/24
What is SUBJUNCTIVE? The Subjunctive is one of the three different moods a Latin verb can take. The two other moods are the Indicative and the Imperative. The subjunctive is perhaps the most common and also most difficult to grasp, and there is a great number of different subjunctive uses
Why are there different Moods? • Each Mood has its own distinct purpose: • Imperative Mood is used for direct commands • Indicative Mood is used for things that actually happened • The Subjunctive Mood is used for things that might happen or haven’t happened yet.
The CUM clause When a sentence begins with CUM and has a subjunctive verb in it we call this a CUM clause. CUM in this case is translated as “when” (although it can have other uses you will learn later) This formal name for this is a CUM TEMPORAL clause
VERB POWER! • Different Moods have different strengths: • Imperative is the strongest mood, it is always the main verb. • Indicative is the next strongest, it is the main verb as long as there is not an imperative in the sentence. • Subjunctive is the weakest mood: it is rarely the main verb
How do I identify subjunctive mood? The imperfect subjunctive is formed by adding the personal endings (-m, -s, -t, -mus, -tis, -nt) to the present infinitive (often the second principal part). The pluperfect subjunctive is formed by adding the personal endings to the perfect infinitive (3rd pp + isse)
Imperfect Subjunctive Example For voco, vocare, vocavi, vocatumthe imperfect subjunctives are formed thus: Vocare-m vocare-mus Vocare-s vocare-tis Vocare-t vocare-nt And are translated “When _____ was/were calling”
Pluperfect Subj. Example For voco, vocare, vocavi, vocatumthe pluperfect subjunctives are formed thus: Vocav-isse-m Vocav-isse-mus Vocav-isse-s Vocav-isse-tis Vocav-isse-t Vocav-isse-nt And are translated “when _____ had called”
Conjugate the following Imperfect Subjunctive MOVEO, MOVERE, MOVI, MOTUS Pluperfect Subjunctive AMO, AMARE, AMAVI, AMATUS