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If the first person is included in the plural subjects, the hortative prefix is used in the subjunctive mood. en.wikipedia.org

The subjunctive is most commonly used to indicate wishes, possibilities, obligations, and any other statements which may be contrary to present fact. en.wikipedia.org

The future subjunctive screeve is used to express an unlikely event in the future and is usually used as a dependent clause. en.wikipedia.org

The present subjunctive differs from the indicative only in that the vowel in the endings changes from "a" to "o". en.wikipedia.org

Subjunctive may be denoted by the glossing abbreviation or. en.wikipedia.org

However, even when the subjunctive and indicative forms are identical, their time references are usually different. en.wikipedia.org

These verbs derive from the subjunctive or optative use of preterite forms to refer to present or future time. en.wikipedia.org

The subjunctive is used in subordinate clauses after certain conjunctions. en.wikipedia.org

New suffixes added to distinguish different grammatical moods (e.g. indicative mood vs. subjunctive vs. jussive). en.wikipedia.org

Because of these differences, epistemic possibility bears on the actual world in ways that subjunctive possibility does not. en.wikipedia.org

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