Deliberative mood
Deliberative mood (
grammatical mood that asks whether the speaker should do something, e. g. "Shall I go to the market?"[1]
The Afar language has a deliberative mood, as in aboo "Shall I do (it)?", with the suffix -oo denoting the deliberative.[1]
References
- ^ a b Loos, Eugene E.; Susan Anderson; Dwight H. Day, Jr; Paul C. Jordan; J. Douglas Wingate. "What is deliberative mood?". Glossary of linguistic terms. SIL International. Retrieved 2009-12-28.