Greek – Mood

▪︎ Indicative Mood (verbal idea is actual, certainty)
– Declarative Indicative.
– Interrogative Indicative
– Cohortative Indicative
– Potential Indicative

▪︎ Subjunctive Mood (verbal idea is contingent upon conditions)
– Hortatory Subjunctive – exhorting others to participate.
– Prohibitory Subjunctive – negative entreaty.
– Deliberative Subjunctive – speaker does not expect an answer.
– Emphatic Negation – with double negative (οὐ μή) very strong emphasis.
– Potential Subjunctive – contains objective or purpose clause, or a conditional clause.

▪︎ Optative Mood (possible without conditions)
– Voluntative Optative.
– Potential Optative.
– Deliberative Optative.

▪︎ Imperative Mood (conditional upon agents response)
– Imperative of Command.
– Imperative of Prohibition.
– Imperative of Entreaty.
– Imperative of Permission.

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