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Old English subjunctive : ウィキペディア英語版 | Old English subjunctive
The subjunctive mood is a flexible grammatical instrument for expressing different gradients in thought when referring to events that are not stated as fact. It is still used frequently in such languages as French, German and Spanish, and also in languages outside the Indo-European branch such as Turkish and Hungarian. In modern English only remnants of a once complex system of separate conjugations exist. What once could be expressed succinctly with the mere change of a conjugation is now only expressible, more often than not, by using word-laden modal constructions. == Etymology ==
The word subjunctive as used to denote grammatical mood derives directly from the Latin ''modus subjunctivus''. This, in itself, is a Greek translation. The original Greek term is ''hypotaktike enklisis'' i.e. subordinated mood. In Greek the subjunctive is almost exclusively used in subordinate clauses. The earliest known usage of the term subjunctive in English dates from the 16th century.
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