subjunctive in the Oxford-Paravia Italian Dictionary

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The subjunctive mood is constrained to only a handful of verbs.
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The present subjunctive is marked with a suffix following the person marking.
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The non-past subjunctive form expresses a wish or command; the past subjunctive form expresses possibility.
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But its substitution by the subjunctive form when the infinitive would be used as a verb is complete.
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It is similar to the cohortative mood, and is closely related to the subjunctive mood.
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Additional archaic forms include "art", "wast", "wert", and occasionally "beest" (as a subjunctive).
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These verbs derive from the subjunctive or optative use of preterite forms to refer to present or future time.
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The present subjunctive differs from the indicative only in that the vowel in the endings changes from "a" to "o".
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However, even when the subjunctive and indicative forms are identical, their time references are usually different.
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The subjunctive mood also expresses warnings, suggestions and potential situations in some subordinate clause types.
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