Wistrish moods
Wistrsh verbal moods are used to display reality or irreality of an action. Unlike aspects, moods are not stackable.
Wistrish moods can be separated into two big categories:
- Realis moods — moods that state a real action that occured, is occuring or will occur. Realis moods have real distinction between past and present and have separation between minor and major past vowels in root-dynamic aspects of strong verbs.
- Irrealis moods — moods that mark planned, assumed, requested, etc actions. They do not feature real tenses: morphological past tenses are used solely to display different probabilities (hence morphological present and past tenses are marked as I and II respectively), and all past tenses of root-dynamic aspects in strong verbs utilize the past major vowel.
While irrealis moods by themselves are divided into two categories:
- Pure irrealis (subjunctive) — moods that display purely hypothetical scenarios.
- Realis-irrealis — moods that have both a realis and an irrealis component in them (the assumed action and the state of this assumption being present).
Mood lists
Realis moods
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Displays an action that objectively took, are taking or will take place.
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Displays an action that may have happened, may be happening or will may happen. Often used to indicate doubt, hence the name.
Pure irrealis
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Most frequently displays hopes and wishes, but in its essence it is used to indicate emotionally assumed actions.
Optative I marks hopes and wishes that have a good chance to happen in real life, while optative II marks hopes and wishes that are unrealistic (low chance or completely impossible).
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Used to introduce purely independent hypothetical actions, not depending on a context-given condition or having any emotional affiliation. Most often encountered in protases of conditional sentences, though sometimes occurs outside of them too.
Hypothetical I is used in realistic hypothetical scenarios, while scenarios described by hypothetical II are unrealistic.
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Used to introduce actions that shall occur if some context-given condition is fulfilled. Most often encountered in apodoses of conditional sentences, though they often occur outside of them when there is an implied condition.
Conditional I marks actions that are guranteed or very likely to happen given the condition, while conditional II has a dubitative connotation: the action may happen if the condition is fulfilled, but it at the bare minimum is not guaranteed.
Realis-irrealis
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Used when an action is applied to multiple objects to stress that each object was interracted individually and not in parallel to each other.
Imperative I marks forceful requests, often translating into normal English imperative, while imperative II marks non-forceful requests such as "please, do X" or "let's X".
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Marks strong (actively sought to be fulfilled) volitions and intents. Irrealis component is the wanted action, while the realis component is the state of volition itself.
Volitive I simply indicates intent (I will X, with X not being a factual statement but an expression of intent to do it). Volitive II simply indicates strong volition (I want to X).