subjunctive

From Latin subjunctīvus (“serving to join, connecting, in grammar applies to the subjunctive mode”), from subjungere (“to add, join, subjoin”), from sub (“under”) + jungere (“to join, yoke”). See join.

• IPA^(key): /səbˈd͡ʒʌŋktɪv/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ʌŋktɪv

subjunctive (not comparable)

1. (grammar, of a verb) Inflected to indicate that an act or state of being is possible, contingent or hypothetical, and not a fact.

subjunctive (countable and uncountable, plural subjunctives)

1. (grammar, uncountable) Ellipsis of subjunctive mood.
2. (countable) A form in the subjunctive mood.

• subjoin

• Subjunctive mood on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• English subjunctive on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “subjunctive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “subjunctive”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

subjunctive

1. subjunctive

• subjunctivo

subjūnctīve

1. vocative masculine singular of subjūnctīvus