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====Mood====
====Mood====
*'''Potential'''
*'''Potential'''<br>The potential mood marks:
The potential mood marks:
**A possibility of the event happening.
#A possibility of the action marked by the verb happens.
*'''Permissive'''<br>The permissive mood marks:
*'''Permissive'''
*#Presence of authorisation, permission for the event to happen.
*'''Abilitative'''
*#That it is appropriate for the event to happen.
*'''Desiderative'''
*'''Abilitative'''<br>The abilitative mood marks:
*#An capability of the event to happen, or the agent to cause the event.
*#That there is a possibility, though unlikely, for the event to happen.
*'''Desiderative'''<br>The desiderative mood marks:
**A wish or want that the event happens.
**When used in conjunction with other tenses:
*#Present: wish or want to be satisfied immediately
*#Near future: wish or want to be satisfied in a definite, near future
*#Far future: wish or want that involves an indefinite or far future
**A wish to be made in the future is presented with
***an auxiliary verb '''gat''' "to want", '''ŋut''' or '''þűt''' "to hope", and
***changing the predicate to the direct object (in absolutive case).
*'''Imperative'''
*'''Imperative'''
*'''Cohortative'''
*'''Cohortative'''
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