subjunctive
/səbˈdʒʌŋ(k)tɪv/
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American sound/səbˈdʒʌŋ(k)tɪv/
səbˈdʒʌŋktɪv
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- 2nd syllable stress
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- Ending
- Final e often stays silent
səb - ˈdʒʌŋktɪv -> subjunctive
Myanmar meaning
စိတ်ကူးခြင်း ၊ အစားထိုးခြင်း ၊ ဖြစ်နိုင်ခြင်းကို ဖော်ပြချက် (သာဓက - ငါသာမင်းနေရာမှာ ရှိရင် ၊ ဖြစ်ချင်သလို ဖြစ်ပါစေ)။ ယင်းစိတ်ထား ၊ ယင်းပုံစံ။
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subjunctive /sǝb'dʒʌŋktÇv/ n (grammar )
(က) the subjunctive [U] မှန်းဆချက်ပုံသဏ္ဌာန်ဖြင့် ဖော်ပြသော ကြိယာပုံစံ။ I wish you were here တွင် ‘were’ သည် ယင်းပုံစံဖြစ်၏။
(ခ) [C] ယင်းပုံစံရှိသော ကြိယာ။
adj ယင်းပုံစံရှိသော(ကြိယာ)။ the subjunctive mood. Compare IMPERATIVE n ၂, INDICATIVE ၂, INFINITIVE
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- ‘French also has the option (which exists also, but very marginally, in English) of the embedded clause appearing in the subjunctive mood.’
- ‘In English the indicative mood is used to make factual statements, the subjunctive mood to indicate doubt or unlikelihood, and the imperative mood to express a command.’
- ‘If on the other hand, a logophoric pronoun/long-distance reflexive and subjunctive mood are deployed, it indicates that the speaker does not take the responsibility for the truth of the report.’
- ‘But the real conundrum in the characterization offered above lies in the presumed subjunctive tense.’
- ‘In English, such verbs have largely replaced the subjunctive mood, and three kinds of modality can be distinguished for them.’
- ‘Outside we few, we happy few conservative intellectuals, use of the subjunctive in spoken speech has pretty much died out.’
- ‘Because I have been using English naturally for the best part of sixty years I have stopped thinking about the construction of sentences (gerunds, subjunctives, conjunctions and prepositions, and all that).’
- ‘Again, as in the case of muncho, haiga, the present subjunctive of the verb haber, is also an archaism still found in many dialects of Spanish.’
- ‘Today we're going to go over the subjunctive and indicative as most of you didn't seem to understand that.’
- ‘Milton's speech here is full of subjunctives and conditionals which reinforce the dream's and the muse's role of masking the direct activity of the speaker.’
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