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noun a mood that represents an act or state (not as a fact but) as contingent or possible
adjective relating to a mood of verbs
originFrom 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.
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